LONG ARM OF THE LAW is an extremely gritty and low budget heist thriller from Hong Kong. The story follows a gang of six robbers who arrive in Kowloon from the Chinese mainland planning to rob a jewellery store. We follow their misadventures as they tangle with a local thug and informer before finally staging the heist, but their trouble doesn't end there. This is a tough, low rent film that benefits from a high dose of realism in both the characters and the locations. It features bursts of stark, bloody violence and a memorable climax in which the characters find themselves hemmed in by police inside a walled city. The action is so well directed that I feel it directly influenced John Woo's style of filmmaking, with great, explosive choreography and even a Mexican standoff at one point. A key production in the development of the Hong Kong action film.
Review of Long Arm of the Law
