Set in the murkily atmospheric underworld of 1980s Hong Kong, wildly entertaining, eye-poppingly violent triad martial arts flick is an old-school throwback to the action cinema heyday of the territory. Chan Lok-kwun (Raymond Lam) arrives in HK as a documentless refugee and immediately attracts the attention of all the wrong people when he wins a bare-knuckle fight in a ring filled with shattered glass (the fight sequences are vigorously wince-inducing).
Fleeing with a stolen bag of drugs, he finds himself in the notorious Kowloon Walled City, a semi-derelict Chinese enclave that is the domain of tough but fair gangster Cyclone (Louis Koo). Chan becomes the target of a cackling maniac of a bad guy who can defy the laws of physics and wears outfits so terrible that they probably class as hate crimes.
In UK and Irish cinemas now
