Full Contact (1992)

People are voting emotionally.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Full Contact is a gritty action classic with acclaimed director Ringo Lam and an all star cast that has Chow Yun Fat, Anthony Wong and Simon Yam. Having any one of these actors in a film automatically makes the movie better , in Full Contact we get all three. Chow Yun Fat is in full antihero mode and is the most sympathetic character in this revenge flick. Anthony Wong is his buddy who gets CYF to rescue him from a loan shark which escalates to more trouble with Wong betraying him also. Simon Yam is Wong 's cousin and a ruthless and sleazy gangster . He also is gay and is attracted to CYF. CYF is betrayed and left for dead and an innocent family is killed and a young girl is badly burned and disfigured as well. Anthony Wong steals CYF 's woman and continues to work with his cousin 's gang. CYF then resurfaces to get even and bring street justice . Full Contact is a unique take on the heroic bloodshed genre brought to life with HK's A list cast and director . Classic.

Full Contact is an unknown and pretty underrated action flick. Yet, I find it a little strange that this movie is getting feedback like "One of the best movie's ever made" or "Brilliant". Gimme a break. Don't get me wrong, it's still a very recommendable action flick, but it's nothing truly special.The story mostly revolves around back-stabbing and revenge. Very simple, but very enjoyable stuff. And when you add in a bunch of talented actors, some goofy characters and pretty cool shoot-outs, you have yourself an entertaining action flick. But unfortunately, it's not all gun-blasting mayhem. There is a lot of needless filler that's really plain old boring. Whenever Chow Yun Fat's girl is on screen, you're either watching her do some incredibly corny dance routine showing off her pole-bean body, or she's trying to initiate an emotional response with the audience, since she's Oh-So innocent. Gimme a break. Full Contact relies much too heavily on trying to get you invested into the characters. They did succeed in making you like the heroes and dislike the enemies, but hell it's not that tough with such well-known actors and such off-the wall characters....let's just get on with the action already. Truthfully the one character I cared about most, was that little pug.But overall Full Contact does shine pretty bright with it's action. There are some very cool bullet effects, some equally as cool cinematography, and some nice performances, especially by Simon Yam who plays the homosexual bad guy. If you're into Asian action flicks this should be a must see, but if you're not into this stuff, it's just more of the same.

In order to help his friend Sam (Anthony Wong Chau-Sang) in a debt with a powerful mobster, Jeff (as Chow Yun Fat) accepts to work for another mobster, Judge (Simon Yam), in a robbery. However, he is betrayed by Judge and attacked by his men, and the coward Sam stays with Judge. Jeff survives the attack, and plots revenge against Judge and his men."Xia dao Gao Fei" is a conventional story of betrayal/revenge as many others we haven seen on the screen. The differential of this movie are the great action scenes. The choreography of the fights is amazing, and Ringo Lam uses the same style of camera of John Woo regarding the sequences of the bullets in a gun shot. This story is forgettable, but also a worthwhile entertainment, highly recommended for fans of action movies. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "À Flor da Pele" ("Near the Skin")

Very good movie, action scenes are on the top of the line, very stylish jut like The Killer (another, and probably the best Chow Yun Fat as of yet), the plot is very powerful as well as it is focusing on Friendship, Betrayal, and Cowardness. The good thing is that it is unpredictable based on Jeff's friend's cowardness, but just wish for the best, i'm not going to give out any spoilers.all in all, this is a must see movie, in fact all chow yun fat's movies are a must see, but i usually prefer the collaboration of CYF with John Woo, but Ringo Lam directs this piece very well and i must say it is the second best CYF movie i've seen and i've seen many of his movies and i have never rated one of his movies under 8, so i'm going to go ahead and give this a 10.