This freewheeling, hyperkinetic family drama with guns marks legendary Vietnamese-born director/producer Tsui Hark's return to real Hong Kong action filmmaking, following an unsatisfactory Hollywood sojourn that produced a pair of cheesy Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicles, DOUBLE TEAM (1997) and KNOCK OFF (1996). The film opens with 21-year-old Tyler (Cantonese pop star Nicholas Tse), a street-smart naif who dreams of escaping to some tropical South American paradise, musing in voiceover about life, the universe and everything over a deliriously sleazy montage of hookers, drunks, thieves and junkies. After an obliterating bar crawl, he winds up in bed with undercover cop...
Released:
2000
Rated:
R
Length:
111 mins