Gong woo jip ban yan

Max Mok performs well as a rising wanna-be triad thug, however the material falls short to deliver any punch to his dialogue. Other characters around him are flat, thus the audience's connection with the movie dwindles. A mediocre Heroic Bloodshed movie of the era, it fails to excite or maintain interest past the few fights. Max Mok and his partner on the street, Wing-Ching Cheung, try to slowly climb up the Triad ladder to make bigger bucks with higher stakes illegal operations. Cheung is a gambling addict however, and when massive debt befalls onto him, Mok as his partner takes equal responsibility for such debt. A Triad boss is much too aggressive to allow both Mok and Cheung alive, in which the movie follows Mok's consequential tragedy and vengeance to kill the Triad boss. If your running out of films to explore in the Heroic Bloodshed genre, it's an average revenge film to watch. Personally with the exception of the last 10 minutes I felt it to be mostly bland, but the conclusion to Max's plight has one hell of a "bang". Let's just say this might win the medal for the most amount of squibs used on one actor, a Swiss cheese death sequence will end the movie on a high note. Besides this one flash-bang moment though, the film is overall unmemorable. 3/10