Hong Kong new wave director Ringo Lam helped make Chow Yun-fatt a superstar with such projects as City on Fire (which also somewhat influenced a certain Reservoir Dogs), the Prison on Fire series, Full Contact and even survived three movies with Jean-Claude Van Damme, Maximum Risk, Replicant, and In Hell. But while it seemed like he had turned his back on action cinema , he's now back with the upcoming highly anticipated release, Wild City.
The premise: When former cop-turned-bar owner T-man Kwok (Louis Koo) befriends a drunken woman at closing time (Tong Liya), they soon find themselves targeted both by her former lover — a Hong Kong attorney and the thugs (such Chang Hsiao-Chuan) whom he employs. Once Kwok’s half-brother (Shawn Yue) and a suitcase full of tainted cash enter the picture, the chase turns deadly, with the brothers’ tense family history coming to the surface as Kwok finds himself torn between the triads and his former police colleagues
The film which also stars Simon Yam and Jack Kao, got plenty of attention in Hong Kong during shooting, with Lam's 80s style of film-making being something some actors and crew found a littler too extreme for their liking. Lam's nickname in the industry has always been the "dark god' for his extreme attitude and approach to film-making. But the early word on the film looks good, and its DOP was the man with the deadly lens himself, Ross Clarkson.
