Ringo Lam's CITY ON FIRE (1987)
Something something "The way to criticize a film is to make another **film" and so on. But first thing to know is this is strangely enough more in common with The *Departed to me than Reservoir Dogs. And yes, everyone knows that Reservoir Dogs was inspired by/ripped off City on Fire for its jewelry heist and story of a mole double crossing everyone. What this book means to puport is: maybe it isn't(??:p) The thing about City on Fire that made me pleased and so locked in was that this is its own thing, up until there is that point when Tarantino himself said he did lift the climax of the picture (complete with Mexican stand-off, which the HK filmmakers themselves "homaging" Spaghetti Westerns must have veen a nice surprise to discover). It is a story where you really do come to loathe like all but one of the cops (because well, by and large, ACAB, I know that is a contradiction but leave me be, I'm just a caveman, etc), in particular how they make undercove...
