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movie review - City On Fire

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one 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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