Rating: R
Genre:
Crime
Release Date: 07/17/2001
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 106 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Nudity
Distributor/Studio: Dimension
This tense Hong Kong crime thriller is known best as the film upon which
Quentin Tarantino borrowed heavily for his 1992 debut,
Reservoir Dogs. Those who criticized the American director for lack of originality have perhaps missed the point. In the highly commercialized, formulaic crime genre of Hong Kong, very few thrillers are truly original, and innovation comes in the form of style, action choreography, and dramatic tension.
City on Fire, directed by
Ringo Lam, is no exception. The story, told in a more traditional narrative form than
Reservoir Dogs, follows
Chow Yun-Fat as Ko Chow, an undercover cop who infiltrates a ring of jewel thieves. When a heist goes wrong, Chow is wounded, and tension among the robbers escalates as they begin to suspect a traitor among their ranks.
~ Jonathan E. Laxamana, All Movie Guide
;)
