I recently had the chance to re-watch Fatal Contact (黑拳) while washing a boatload of dishes one night. It stars Wu Jing (吳京) as an Chinese opera performer sucked into the ruthless world of underground street fighting.
The films two females lead are from the Cookies, Miki Yeung and Theresa Fu.
The film has several fight scenes and builds like a video game. The fights get progressively harder and more dangerous.
Eventually, the characters are further explored and fleshed out.
Tragedy prevails and like many HK movies of the past, its not an happy ending.
However, the last scene does inspire and make you think of "what could have been".
When I first watched this film a year or so ago, I thought it was awesome. At least the fighting was. I actually fast forwarded through most of the non action. But this time around, I couldn't do it as I was washing dishes. I actually caught the story and thought it was quite morbid.
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