There are a lot of movies that actually have the title Full Contact, so to be clear, we’re talking about the one with Chow Yun Fat, directed by Ringo Lam. The original title was Chivalrous Thief Gau Fei, and the film was essentially an attempt to bring old world, white knight chivalry to the modern action movie genre. It’s really one of the best of the Heroic Bloodshed films if you’re a fan of John Woo, so next time you want to watch movies online and you want some great action, give it a download.

Chow Yun Fat plays the lead role as a very pure action hero, a man of honor and loyalty. Interestingly, this is what doomed the movie at the Hong Kong box office while it has gone on to become a cult hit in the United States. In Hong Kong, Chow Yun Fat isn’t seen as an action star, he’s seen as a comedy star who does action flicks from time to time. HK audiences didn’t want to see Chow Yun Fat in such a violent action film.

The story follows Gau Fei, a chivalrous thief… Also a bouncer at a nightclub where his girlfriend dances. He’s basically a knock around guy who gets in over his head when his cousin borrows some money from a local triad thug. Gau Fei shows up to save his cousin from the loan sharks and winds up with more than he bargained for, so he has to flee the city while he pulls off a major heist to pay the loan shark back before he returns home.

Fei gets betrayed and what seems like a mission of revenge becomes a mission of redemption. Be on the lookout for the “Rocky Montage” moment about half way through, where we see Gau Fei train himself to shoot left handed and recuperate after being shot at, having his right finger and thumb cut off, and being set on fire.

What really makes the movie work, though, is not the story, but how beautiful it really is. It’s focused on red and blue, images of fire and water, of violence and peace, and the end result is a lot of great contrast with rainy streets and the city on fire. The movie is full of unforgettably beautiful, dreamlike images.

The movie is relatively rare on DVD and never gets played on TV, so if you want to check it out, you’ll have to look on the internet to find it. It’s really worth a watch, though, if you’re a fan of action, and especially if you’re a fan of Hong Kong action.

The movie was sort of the last of the Heroic Bloodshed films, having been made in 1992, the same year as Hard Boiled, just before John Woo and Ringo Lam left Hong Kong to make films in the US. Interestingly, both directors made their Hollywood debuts with Jean Claude Van Damme, and both of those films were nearly ruined by Van Damme’s constant demands in the editing room. The end result was great Van Damme movies, but bad John Woo and Ringo Lam movies.

The movie is sentimental, nostalgic, exciting, it has some great moments of humor and an excellent cast, and it really has a lot of style. It’s a surprisingly pretty movie, very colorful and slick, and at the very least, is full of images you’ll just find yourself staring at.

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