The greatest movie ever!

Good idea lost in the noise

Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

Then TV director Johnie To's feature debut, a companion to the costume movie noir of the contemporary Hong Kong feature KILLER CONSTABLE, this one has a more realistic look and the action is quite convincing - less fantastic than the films made in front of it. In many ways it is a more interesting project that the director's later and more widely circulated work.After a jail break opening, the plot does a U-turn providing a new villain to add to the impact.Inventive pieces of staging like superior numbers driven back by the burning grass bundle on a fork run down the narrow alley.