Long zai jiang hu
Directed by:
Ronny YuComposer:
Richard YuenCast:
Brandon Lee, Bolo Yeung, Ku Feng, Michael Wai-Man Chan, Michael Wong, Kirk Wong, Fui-on Shing, Stuart Smith, Blacky Ko, Hoi Mang, Teddy Yip, Ruby Cheuk-Ling Wong (more)Plots(1)
Brandon (Brandon Lee) is a tough young man working by day as a car compactor in the auto junkyard and by night as a waiter. Good looking and skilled in martial arts, Brandon has one major weakness - an unceasing desire to use his might for justice. A so called friend Michael (Michael Wong) manages to get Brandon framed for the slaughter of a cop and consequently sent to prison. In jail he becomes a close friend of a clever small-time crook called Hoi after coming to Hoi's aid during a fight with some other inmates. When Brandon learns how he was set up by Michael he and Hoi try, unsuccessfully, to break out of jail. Six years later they are released and by now Michael has become a Mafia boss leading an army of blood thirsty thugs. Having armed themselves with the latest weapons Brandon and Hoi declare war on Michael. The final confrontation escalates into a bloodbath which will determine their ultimate fate! (Mediumrare Entertainment)
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Heroic bloodshed is not only a subgenre of action movies, but also of melodrama, a fact for which Legacy of Rage provides ample confirmation. Brandon Lee’s first starring role does not attempt to merely present the son of action icon Bruce Lee as the successor to his father, but instead tries to also make use of his dramatic acting potential, at least to the extent that this is even possible in the context of emotionally affected Hong Kong melodrama. Most of the film’s runtime is filled not with action sequences, but with sequences of tragic injustices exaggerated in the spirit of romance novels. Fate presents the good-hearted young man played by Brandon with one obstacle after another, which he, with the help of the supporting characters, tentatively resists in order to preserve his role as a respectable citizen. It’s only at the end, when the injustice passes from him to the love of his life, that the situation suddenly explodes and he and his friend (played by action choreographer and stuntman Mang Hoi) shoot up a house full of bad guys in the exceedingly bombastic climax.
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