| A.k.a Point Of No Return. A middle of the road effort from Ringo Lam and Sammo Hung but that exciting, and frankly rarely mentioned, collaboration is worth sitting through. Lam of course made his name doing gritty thrillers and Sammo Hung himself could churn out more hard hitting action so it's not a far fetched prospect at all. It starts out promising enough with the requisite Ringo Lam-esque mood (complete with a saxophone soundtrack a la City On Fire) and bloody violence. And Sammo, whose character witnesses a murder, does really well for himself in portraying the ordinary man (with a little bit of ass-kicking skill in him) who's reluctant to help out the law when there's no hope or safety for people like him.
Problem is that Lam this time really shoves down the social commentary down our throat and ventures into far more comedy than needed. Touch And Go therefore comes off as competent, both from Lam and Hung's point of view, but a promising prospect does not in the end fully bloom, which is a shame. Also with Vincent Wan, Tommy Wong, Teresa Mo, Lau Kong and Helena Law Lan. |
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