A storm is heading your way, but fear not, we're not entering large-scale disaster movie territory here. Not in the way Switch was at least. Andy Lau's latest action thriller does involve a huge storm heading to the city, but that's only part of the problem, the main destructive force is caused by a crew of seasoned criminals led by the notorious Nam (Hu Jun). Armed with high-powered weapons, and we're talking a lot of high-powered weaponry, Nam pulls off another violent armoured car heist on a busy street in broad daylight. There is no mercy. In fact, limbs are blown off left, right and centre; Firestorm pulls no punches when it comes to onscreen violence. Andy plays a senior police inspector, the kind of guy who does everything by the book. Or at least, that's how thing used to play out before he came up against Nam. Extreme crime demands extreme justice,...
- 4/10/2014
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