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Full Alert
Why this pick
Ringo Lam returns to the nervy, street-level Hong Kong crime mode of City on Fire, with fraught police work, volatile criminals and a relentlessly tightening sense of danger.
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MOVIE1987 1h 38m HKG
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The undercover cop Chan Kam-wah, investigating a group of jewellery thieves, blows his cover and is stabbed to death by three attackers in a public marketplace. His superior, Inspector Lau, orders Ko Chow, another undercover policeman, to resume the investigations. Ko Chow accepts reluctantly: he would prefer not to perform another undercover assignment, since he had to arrest someone during his last mission who had trusted him as a friend.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Maria Cordero
Singer [cameo]
Lau Kong
Commissioner Chow