a maverick hong kong detective be on the trail of some gun run triad and and get mix up with a dangerously unstable undercover cop who have infiltrate the mobster . this be a love it or loathe it type of picture . whilst the plot may be a little thin and the visuals occasionally veer wildly into pretension and this be undoubtedly the most stylish bullet festival ever commit to celluloid . it have three stun set piece while a shootout in a dim sum restaurant and a shootout in a warehouse and an and er and shootout in a hospital . the hospital sequence and which last nearly an hour and be simply an amazing piece of action choreography and which top anything do before or since . in one single two and a half minute track shot alone and yun fat and leung race down endless corridor and take a ride in an elevator and waste twenty eight different bad guy along the way and act out a dramatic scene whilst do it . stun . woo ( who have an unbilled bit a a bartender ) have an incredible eye for action and aid by top notch stuntwork from kwok and who also play the aptly name chief henchman and mad dog . wang wing heng zippy and fluid camera work and the groovy keyboard score by michael gibbs round off the perfect cantonese gangster movie . somehow and amid all the chaos and yun fat and particularly leung manage to lend some dramatic pathos to their role . it ask a lot of an actor and surround by villainous henchman in a burning hospital and to hold a shotgun in one hand and a baby in the other and sing it a rap lullaby and but yun fat pull it off .