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A gruff inspector (Ching Wan Lau) hopes a murder suspect's (Francis Ng) girlfriend will lead him to a Taiwanese gang planning a heist.
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- Emanuel Levy
- Action
- Ringo Lam
Nov 19, 2021 · Ringo Lam plunges viewers straight into the action here with cops storming a building where they discover the drowned body of a man in a water tank. The Serious Crime Bureau make two arrests: Mak Kwan (Francis Ng) and his girlfriend, Chung Lai-hung (Amanda Lee).
- Jamie Havlin
Full Alert is a 1997 Hong Kong action film directed and co-written by Ringo Lam. The film's plot is set in 1997 when cops find a corpse and bomb chemicals, Inspector Pao ( Lau Ching-wan ) arrests suspect Mak Kwan ( Francis Ng ) hoping that his girlfriend will lead them to his Taiwanese gang, but Mak makes an escape and the girlfriend makes off ...
“Full Alert,” the return of Hong Kong helmer Ringo Lam to home soil after his Hollywood bow with “Maximum Risk,” finds the action-drama maestro back in socko form.
If you enjoy these types of crime movies, despite them being predictable to the core, then "Full Alert" is well worth checking out, as it has enough action to stand alongside any Hong Kong movie, and a solid storyline to keep the audience hooked.
Nov 21, 2021 · Overall. SUMMARY. A Hong Kong detective, under pressure to keep things in the city under control leading up to the handover, tries to track down a gangster who escaped from prison who he believes is planning a heist of the H.K. Jockey Club in this 1997 neo-noir crime thriller from Ringo Lam.
A police inspector becomes obsessed with apprehending a criminal planning a major heist at the Hong Kong Jockey Club in the weeks leading up to Hong Kong's return to China.
