Rating: D+
Dir: Man Kit Poon
Star: Ray Lui, Kent Cheng, Cecilia Yip, Amy Yip
[22] Downbeat, realistic, but not actually all that entertaining saga of life among the triads. Ray Lui plays a junior thug at the bottom of the heap, who has a chance encounter with the head of his triad and embarks on a spree of violence to impress and win promotion. Except, of course, it doesn’t quite go as planned, and his boss eventually has to deal with his loose cannon. The violence is well-staged and possesses the required impact, but the characters are ill-defined and there are simply too many subsidiary ones rattling around – a concentration on the central character would have helped. As it is, you simply don’t care what happens to him, leaving the result distant and unengaging.