Ringo Lam is no John Woo, but they also serve who put rising star Chow Yun-fat in a series of sweet fits in a violent Hong Kong crime film. Here Chow plays an undercover detective looking for a cop killer and getting a bit too close to a crew of vicious thieves. Some observers have noticed similarities between Lam’s film and Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs. What’s that saying about mediocre artists and great artists?
