Long Arm of the Law

Long Arm of the Law

1984
Crime, Action
1h 40m
In this first of a four-part film series a group of men from the mainland illegally enters Hong Kong and soon forms a 'Big Circle' triad gang. It doesn't take long till the police is hot on their trail which inevitably leads to a final shootout. (imdb comments)
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Long Arm of the Law

1984
Crime, Action
1h 40m
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Rated 21 Aug 2012
84
77th
It's a Hong Kong action flick. Nothing astounding but a compelling story told from the side of a criminal gang with some great action scenes.
Rated 16 Apr 2017
65
62nd
This movie is brutal & gritty but it also has severe pacing issues. The film drags in between the action scenes and the acting is mediocre at best. There is a lot of guerrilla film making throughout which adds to the realism and grittiness. The ending for which this is most well known for is one long crazy chase through the maze like slums that amounts to almost 15-20 minutes of tension & carnage.
Rated 31 Jan 2020
75
60th
Released a few year before the "Heroic Bloodshed" genre really kicked off, this clearly been highly influential. It features some good action sequences, especially the final shoot-out in Kowloon's Walled City is memorable. With the protagonists being a bunch of ruthless bastards, this is a bleak and gritty take on the action-crime movie. Painful is that Mak undercuts this hard-nosed depiction with some horrible comedy. An extra layer of interest is to see the huge appeal HK had on mainlanders.
Rated 01 Apr 2020
4
70th
Progenitor for the huge explosion of HK crime and heroic bloodshed flicks that would sweep the popular imagination just a couple short years later. Mak is far less flashy than his successors, but no less imaginative or muscular. The ending chase and shootout in Kowloon Walled City is possibly everything I've ever wanted from a film.

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