Hong Kong, China · 2007
Rated R · 1h 28m
Director Wilson Yip
Starring Donnie Yen, Louis Koo, Collin Chou, Ray Lui
Genre Action
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Detective Sergeant Ma Jun, known for dispensing his own brand of justice during arrests, teams up with an undercover cop, Wilson, to try and bring down three merciless Vietnamese brothers running a smuggling ring in the months before mainland China's takeover of Hong Kong. Jun pursues the gang tirelessly, sometimes ignoring police protocols. A showdown is inevitable!
Flash Point treats its audience like dogs, making us suffer through routine, almost inscrutable plot points and inconsequential characterizations to get to these episodes, and as such reveals itself as nothing more than a dumb action picture with delusions of Johnnie To–dom.
The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
Flash Point”attaches coldly professional visuals to a narrative so baffling that it’s rarely clear who is pounding on whom or why.
Flash Point comes loaded with cliches and immediately starts blasting them in every direction.
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
Donnie Yen is famous for combining martial arts traditions into his own unique fighting style and Collin Chou, who studied with Sammo Hung, is up to the task of holding his own.
San Francisco Chronicle by Peter Hartlaub
Has a solid story, which keeps things interesting during the quiet moments when nobody is getting kicked in the head.
Plainly disappointing as a well-sustained kick-butt thriller, and politically toxic.
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