A Hong Kong Special Branch cop and a CIA agent reluctantly team up to bring down a major international terrorist.
Practical Effects
Pre-CGI Hong Kong explosions hit different—everything's actually on fire.
Stunts
Danny Lee's reckless commitment to physical chaos.
Direction
Lam's muscular staging elevates generic material.
Director
Ringo Lam Ling-Tung
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Hong Kong's pre-handover anxiety, the film literalizes Western fears of Asian instability through its terrorist threat.
Ringo Lam shot this between his City on Fire masterpieces; it's his forgotten English-language experiment that barely got US distribution.
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