| Crime drama about a group of friends who get caught up in the glamour and treachery of gang life. One night they celebrate a birthday at a club when they manage to piss a off a gangster, which leads to a confrontation in the alley in back of the disco. The four friends are greatly outnumbered but stand their ground which impresses the boss (Wai), who shows up just before the fight breaks out. Now the boys join the gang and actually run the disco and achieve success within the gang but still have to deal with Wai's underboss Kei who refuses to forget his grudge. One night the boys are set up while collecting a debt from a rival boss and everything spirals downhill from there.
It is obvious from the opening scene that this is an extremely low budget Hong Kong flick. It is largely plagued with very amatuerish acting and awful action scenes. The action always seems to involve machetes and are annoyingly in your face and slowed down and sped up to mask the lack of training of the actors. The only person involved with this film with any name recognition is the director, Ivan Lai (of cat 3 fame). Although slow at times, it maintains a solid story and level of interest that could have been much more with more seasoned actors and a larger budget to work with...still not too bad. |
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