| Product Summary | | Publisher: New Line | | Format: VHS | | Language: Spanish | | UPC: 00794043477539 | | Buy.com Sku: 40115414 | | Item#: VQN5GC | | Category Keywords: Cops Gangs | Rating:  |
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| | | You can't play by the rules when there aren't any.
Features: Spanish
Nick Chen (Chow Yun-Fat) is one of the NYPD's most decorated officers. The first Chinese-born immigrant on the force, Chen has used his close ties with a group of Chinese "businessman" known as the Triads to rise through the ranks. Now, a gold shield detective and the star officer on the city's highly touted Asian Gang Unit, it's Chen's job to keep the peace in Chinatown. But a turf war has erupted between the Triads and the newly arrived and brutally violent Fukienese Dragons. As the precarious peace in Chinatown is interrupted, the NYPD beefs up the Asian Gang Unit with a new recruit: an idealistic cop, Danny Wallace (Mark Wahlberg), who is unaware of how power and influence have compromised his superiors. When the Tongs boldly attempt to corrupt this young officer, Chen is forced to realign his loyalties.
" A blast with more twists and turns than a Chinese puzzle!" Linda Stotter, Entertainment Time Out
"Exciting and Explosive." Brian Sebastian, Movie Reviews & More
"A rock-solid visually slick crime thriller." Entertainment Weekly
"(Yun-Fat is) the coolest actor in the world..." Los Angeles Times
Editor's Note
Chow Yun-Fat is Nick Chen, a severe New York Chinatown cop who is having a tough time keeping peace on the streets after a turf war breaks out between the triads and a street gang. Mark Wahlberg is Danny Wallace, another cop brought in to help with the peacekeeping effort. When he realizes that Chen's ties to the criminals go even deeper than he suspected, things get very violent and complicated.
| Features | Full Frame - 1.33 |
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Release Information
|  | Studio: New Line |
| Release Date: 2/1/2000 |
| Running Time: 100 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1999 | | Catalog ID: 4775 | | UPC: 00794043477539 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Available Subtitles: Spanish | | Video: Color |
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| | Professional Reviews | Rolling Stone
"...A seamless blend of action and character that's not afraid of a few poetic leaps into the wild blue..." 04/01/1999 p.112New York Times
"...Bracingly chilly....It never loses its smarts..." 03/12/1999 p.E12 Los Angeles Times
"...Yun-Fat holds your attention span as if it were a kitten he likes to tease....Yun-Fat is a movie star of the first magnitude..." 03/12/1999 p.F2 Time Magazine 8 of 10
[Director James] Foley (After Dark, My Sweet, who choreographs the snazziest New York car chase since The French Connection, specializes in close-up portraits of people sweating on the inside. But no matter how dank the moral dilemma, Chow will never break a sweat. In Hong Kong or New York, he's just too cool. - Richard Corliss
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