City on Fire at Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, on 11 Dec. Chow Yun Fat stars as an undercover cop on one last job; to infiltrate a gang of jewel thieves. But when a cop gets killed he's caught between vengeful police and the trigger-happy thieves.
After John Woo’s A BETTER TOMORROW, lead actor Chow Yun Fat cemented his reputation as Hong Kong’s hottest new action megastar with his performance in Ringo Lam’s CITY ON FIRE, one of the most beloved examples of the ‘heroic bloodshed’ subgenre.
Ko (Chow) is an undercover cop on one last job, assigned to infiltrate a gang of jewel thieves committing armed robberies across Hong Kong. When another cop is killed during one of the gang’s heists, Ko finds himself caught in the crossfire between the cops desperate to catch the culprits at any cost, and the trigger-happy thieves who begin to smell a rat in their midst. As the body count rises, Ko’s only hope for survival might be his burgeoning friendship with weary gang member Fu (Danny Lee)…
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