| Made directly for video by Danny Lee's production company Magnum, as with many of these movies no English subtitles were ever created but Shoot To Kill is such basic entertainment anyway that it's relatively easily followed. Lo Sect On (Nick Cheung in a role he probably wouldn't accept today but he should be grateful to Danny who landed him several roles early on) is a triad gangster who is let out of prison but he hasn't realized it's bad to be bad. On the contrary, he continues to mess up his family, corrupt his younger relatives and go on a violence bender with his gang. All this is up to Danny Lee's usual crew of characters to handle then...
Rated Category III, director Wong Gam-Din plays with the video format but swiping cues from The Terminator movies and featuring a lame, stock score otherwise, his chops as a supervisor for destruction and suspense gets paid off in slight ways only. Making sure to add extra outrageousness to Cheung's psycho character via bloodshed, the violence moves the picture ahead at a brisk pace but even with subtitles, nothing grand character- or narrative-wise would probably have been revealed in Shoot To Kill. Just sit back for a mere 80 minutes and take the punishment and slight rewards. Also starring Parkman Wong, Eric Kei, Lam King-Kong and Danny Lee appear sporadically. |
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