Easily one of the best movies of the year. It's not a traditional racing movie--in fact, you never even get near a race track. Derek Yee seems to have an obsession with realistically portraying facets of lower-class life in Hong Kong. In this film he covers the area of illegal motorcycle racing. Although there are some exciting (read: scary) races in the film, winning the big race is not the subject of the film. The subject is the people involved in the racing and their relationships with each other and the people around them. While not a tearjerker on the level of C'EST LA VIE, MON CHERIE, I still shed quite a few tears. A pleasant surprise was that Andy remembered how to act in this film and was quite good. The other actors are uniformly excellent. I particularly liked Gigi Leung Wing Kei, who plays Andy's girlfriend.