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7.5A cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers goes on a mission to catch them. In order to get closer to the leaders of the ring he joins forces with an undercover cop who's working as a gangster hitman. They use all means of excessive force to find them.
Released: 1992-04-16126 minDir: John WooAction, Thriller, CrimeBudget: $4.5MBox office: $2.6M
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Cast
- Chow Yun-Fat as Insp. 'Tequila' Yuen
- Tony Leung Chiu-wai as Alan
- Anthony Wong Chau-Sang as Johnny Wong
- Teresa Mo Shun-Kwan as Teresa Chang
- Philip Chan Yan-Kin as Supt. Pang
- Stephen Tung Wai as Little Ko / Fox
Themes
- arms smuggling
- inspector
- arms dealer
- hong kong
- drugs
- frantic
- tense
- ambivalent
- euphoric
- gay interest
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Ratings
IMDb
7.7/10
57,998 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
92%
- Year
- 1992
- Runtime
- 128 min
- Genres
- Action, Crime, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 3 wins & 4 nominations total
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- crime film
- Country of origin
- Hong Kong
- Original language
- Cantonese
- Director
- John Woo
- Screenwriter
- Barry Wong
- Cast member
- Kwan Hoi-san
- Composer
- Michael Gibbs
- Production company
- Paramount Pictures
- Narrative location
- Hong Kong
- Duration
- 123
- FilmAffinity ID
- 195231
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 2002-09-03
- distributed by
- Netflix
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- set in environment
- hospital
- review score
- 8.1/10
- capital cost
- 4500000
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