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  • 2008
  • R
  • Third Rail Releasing
  • 1 h 28 m
  • 2008
  • R
  • Third Rail Releasing
  • 1 h 28 m

Summary One man. One car. Tearing down the road like a flash of lightning. The man: Jun Ma, detective sergeant of the Serious Crimes Unit. Like the sports car he controls, Jun is fast, precise, and brutal, harnessing a horsepower that fears to be unleashed. Jun detests crime, and his lifelong nemeses are a gang of three brothers. The eldest brot...

Directed By: Wilson Yip

Written By: Kam-Yuen Szeto, Lik-Kei Tang

  • 2008
  • R
  • Third Rail Releasing
  • 1 h 28 m
  • 2008
  • R
  • Third Rail Releasing
  • 1 h 28 m

City with No Mercy

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary One man. One car. Tearing down the road like a flash of lightning. The man: Jun Ma, detective sergeant of the Serious Crimes Unit. Like the sports car he controls, Jun is fast, precise, and brutal, harnessing a horsepower that fears to be unleashed. Jun detests crime, and his lifelong nemeses are a gang of three brothers. The eldest brot...

Directed By: Wilson Yip

Written By: Kam-Yuen Szeto, Lik-Kei Tang

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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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29% Positive
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43% Mixed
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29% Negative
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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29% Positive
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43% Mixed
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29% Negative
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75
Has a solid story, which keeps things interesting during the quiet moments when nobody is getting kicked in the head.
By Peter Hartlaub FULL REVIEW
63
Donnie Yen is famous for combining martial arts traditions into his own unique fighting style and Collin Chou, who studied with Sammo Hung, is up to the task of holding his own.
By Maitland McDonagh FULL REVIEW
50
The plot development of Flash Point is purely utilitarian, like a shuttle bus that transports stock characters from one action set to another.
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40
Flash Point”attaches coldly professional visuals to a narrative so baffling that it’s rarely clear who is pounding on whom or why.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
40
Plainly disappointing as a well-sustained kick-butt thriller, and politically toxic.
By Robert Koehler FULL REVIEW
30
Flash Point treats its audience like dogs, making us suffer through routine, almost inscrutable plot points and inconsequential characterizations to get to these episodes, and as such reveals itself as nothing more than a dumb action picture with delusions of Johnnie To–dom.
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Flash Point comes loaded with cliches and immediately starts blasting them in every direction.
By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Mandarin Films Distribution, Chang Ying Group, Beijing Poly-bona Film Publishing Company, Beijing Enlight Pictures, China Film Co-Production Corporation
Release Date Mar 14, 2008
Duration 1 h 28 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline They made it personal... He'll make them pay.
Website http://www.flashpointthemovie.com/
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Awards

Golden Horse Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Hong Kong Film Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
World Stunt Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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