Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 126 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- CN
- Country
- Hong Kong SAR China
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
- In CN — subtitles on.
The story
A 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.
- arms smuggling
- inspector
- arms dealer
- hong kong
- drugs
- frantic
- tense
- ambivalent
- euphoric
- gay interest
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Chow Yun-Fat
Insp. 'Tequila' Yuen
Tony Leung Chiu-wai
Alan
Anthony Wong Chau-Sang
Johnny Wong
Teresa Mo Shun-Kwan
Teresa Chang
- Philip Chan Yan-Kin — Supt. Pang
- Stephen Tung Wai — Little Ko / Fox
- Kwan Hoi-San — Mr. Hoi
- John Woo — Mr. Woo
- Bowie Lam Bo-Yee — Lung
- Phillip Kwok Chui — Mad Dog
- Jun Kunimura — Machine Gunman in Teahouse
- Bobby Au-Yeung Tsan-Wah — Lionheart
- Keith Ng Shui-Ting — Chung
- Lau Kong — Hospital Director
- Michael Dinga — Little Moustache
- Directed
- John Woo
- Written
- Barry Wong Ping-Yiu, Gordon Chan, John Woo
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 957 ratings
- Studio
- Golden Princess Film Productions, Milestone Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
