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Summary: Ekin, Chingmy, Lau Ching Wan-great gunplay action
Review: I loved this DVD. In fact, I loved it so much I also bought it in the vcd format where the english/chinese subtitles are placed on one page. Plot: Ekin plays "Tsun" (who looks great in this movie) plays a triad leader rising rapidly with nose cancer (from smoking too much) and Yau chingmy (she is so gorgeous!) plays his very feisty girlfriend who loves him (you realize this when she refuses to let him touch her after an apparent bout of infidelity on his part (he wasn't), but she still prays that no harm be visited on him, but on her) but wants him to get out his gangster lifestyle, and Lau Ching Wan plays the seemingly appearing loser Ekin befriends that later helps him out. The movie is melodramatic with over the top emotions (I love it!!). The fighting choreography is top notch, with Ekin using guns in several angles, theres a gunfight in a mainland chinese motel where Ekin is lying on top of a tall chest of drawers (!) and the movements are very graceful. The movie has a sad ending (how many triad movies have you seen that end happily - other than Young and Dangerous #5 and 6 -these are great films by the way) and when he finally finds Chingmy again I couldn't stop crying! However, the action is great, the very coherent plot moves very fast and the acting is quite accomplished but then I like ekin and Chingmy. There is an ironic scene way at the very beginning of the film when Lau Ching Wan goes to a comic seller and demands the latest copy of Chung Wah Ying Hong- which 5 years later, Cheng Ekin starred in that movie (English title - A man called Hero). I loved this movie, This is a Universe DVD, so the picure quality is decent(Universe distributors almost always have extraordinary precision colors and picture - see Hot War, StormRiders, Young and Dangerous 3) and has the really narrow letterboxing original format, but the colors seem to be a tad faded (it was made in 1995). It is not a John Woo film, but a Wong Jing production, and Wong Jing likes to give his movies style and "cool". I like Wong Jing produced/directed films. Granted, they are made primarily for entertainment and there is not too much of the socially redeeming value in this sort of movie, etc, and that being said, blah blah, this is a great film!!!!

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Summary: I'd give it less if I could
Review: Terrible. Just a bad movie. I'm a Lau Ching Wan and Ekin Cheng fan and the title drew me in thinking John Woo. Not even close. Ekin was like driftwood, and Michael Wong cameos in his not so glory days of acting. Lau Ching Wan's performance was the only enjoyable part of this movie. Go watch the original Better Tomorrows, Full Contact, Big Bullet.

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Summary: Cool Action
Review: Watch it. you won't come aroun