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MPAA Rating: NR Content Advisory: Violence, Nudity Movie Release: 1987 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: Cantonese, Mandarin Subtitles: English, Japanese, Thai, Chinese (unspecified dialect) SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 40 mins Studio: Universe Laser & Video Co. Members Wishing: 4 Genres: Crime, Crime Thriller, Gangster Film See Also: City on Fire

This tense Hong Kong crime thriller is known best as the film upon which Quentin Tarantino borrowed heavily for his 1992 debut, Reservoir Dogs. Those who criticized the American director for lack of originality have perhaps missed the point. In the highly commercialized, formulaic crime genre of Hong Kong, very few thrillers are truly original, and innovation comes in the form of style, action choreography, and dramatic tension. City on Fire, directed by Ringo Lam, is no exception. The story, told in a more traditional narrative form than Reservoir Dogs, follows Chow Yun-Fat as Ko Chow, an undercover cop who infiltrates a ring of jewel thieves. When a heist goes wrong, Chow is wounded, and tension among the robbers escalates as they begin to suspect a traitor among their ranks. ~ Jonathan E. Laxamana, All Movie Guide

Chow Yun-Fat
Sun Yueh
Danny Lee
Carrie Ng
Roy Cheung