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movie review - City On Fire

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Sydney, 2000.02.15

This movie is yet another of the well built, plot rich HK cop stories starring Chow Yun Fat. Here, he lays a disgraced former detective who turns to crime and finds a new life and love. It doesn't end well, and you see it coming in every frame.

Not recommended.

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I feel fortunate that I enjoyed the blandishments of modernity. I had hip replacement and root canal. I was able to travel on airplanes. I was able to take cheap food for granted. I went to the movies. I enjoyed rock 'n' roll. And now I'm ready to move on.

—James Howard Kunstler