| A boring montage of the Hong Kong night accompanies the opening credits and this being an early Chow Yun-Fat movie we know didn't get acclaim, in a way (wrongly or not) we've made up our mind early. Danny Lee and fellow cops try and bring down a nasty gang boss, solve corruption within their own force and later there's a vigilante streak to go on as a triad hitman (Chow Yun-Fat) raises hell. Attempts at a gritty street look is a poor one (this ain't no Jumping Ash after all) and about only a scene and a half got any tension to speak of. What there is to remember is the fairly rare sight of Chow Yun-Fat playing it very evil and in a confrontation with Danny Lee, he urinates in the face of his future The Killer co-star. Some kind of classic image I guess. Also with Ng Man-Tat, Paul Chun and Tien Feng.
Released on Hong Kong dvd as Heroic Cops while a VHS release in America tried to sell it as a sequel to The Killer by blessing it with the title Killers Two. |
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