Full Contact (Xia dao Gao Fei) (1993)

Takes Ringo Lam's distinctly-uncontrollable third-act conflict and makes the whole movie like that. Such explosive energy prevents a coherent matrix of character motivations to build-up to one final spark, but unlike his other films that is not the goal here: he just wants…

reibureibu

74 Hard Hong-Kong Hair Metal. Starts with a man lighting a cigarette with his fingers and only gets stranger from there.

SilentDawn

Seen on an English dubbed print that hilariously mistranslated a number (probably most, if not all) of the lines and featured the title card "Hard Boiled 2." Still melted the entire Revue's faces off anyway. That's the power of pure hyper-violent homoerotic Hong Kong action…

Josh Lewis

Action! - Johnnie/Ringo's Hong Kong Actions: Lam On Fire By now, it should be abundantly clear that Ringo has a knack for directing and filming thrilling action sequences that never lose their momentum or intensity. They're not often really creative, but they never fail…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

I like my Hong Kong actioners brutal, with an extra serving of horniness.Virgin: Are you checking to see if there's a hole in my underpants? Jeff: No, I just saw a vomiting crab.Good times introducing Adrian to his first Ringo Lam movie. 💥

Lou (rhymes with wow!)

Relentless action, stylish visuals and a sizable dusting of sleaze; Ringo Lam's Full Contact is an all out action classic. The plot follows a robbery that ends with a double cross, leading to a quest for revenge. Everything about this film is ramped up and over the top. It…

Slig001

Late to the late Lam, but am attempting to fill in some gaps this Lamuary. This was like the mutant baby of POINT BLANK and a Sega Genesis sidescrolling basher (down to a mohawked miniboss named "Madman" who has a thing for machine guns), and as the kids say, I am here…

laird

There has to be a classic noir that has this exact plot, but I can't place it. A man does a heist job to help out a friend, but they get betrayed and the man is presumed dead while the friend joins the betrayers, going so far as to steal his friend's wife. But the man comes…

Sean Gilman

Go Jack Off In Hell

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