Flash Point
Short description
Flash Point is a Hong Kong action film directed by Wilson Yip, released in 2007. It follows Detective Sergeant Ma Jun, a police officer known for using heavy-handed tactics during arrests and whose conduct has drawn internal scrutiny. He is paired with Wilson, an undercover officer who has infiltrated a Vietnamese crime syndicate operating in Hong Kong in the months before the handover to mainland China. When Wilson's cover is blown, he is badly injured, and the gang's jailed leader becomes the focus of a desperate effort to keep the remaining witnesses alive and bring the organization down. Ma's pursuit of the gang increasingly disregards police procedure, setting up a confrontation.
Donnie Yen stars as Ma and also produced the film; Louis Koo plays Wilson, with Collin Chou, Ray Lui, Fan Bingbing and Kent Cheng in supporting roles. The screenplay is by Szeto Kam-Yuen and Nicholl Tang Nik-Kei. The film was made for around 8 million US dollars and took roughly 6 million worldwide. It followed Yip's earlier collaborations with Yen on SPL: Kill Zone and Dragon Tiger Gate, and preceded the Ip Man series.
On IMDb it holds a critics' rating of 5.6/10 from 21 reviews, while on TMDB it has a rating of 7/10 from 385 votes, a gap that suggests general audiences responded more favorably than critics did.
What's left behind the scenes
- In the parking lot scene, it took Xin Yue, who played Tiger, 39 takes to portray jumping over the gate and attacking the person in the car. His co-star Donnie Yen attributed this to Yue's nervousness, as it was his first film with Yen. One of the takes, in which Yue's character crashes through the gate, was included in the final credits.
- Donnie Yen originally planned for a significantly longer fight scene and a more extended confrontation between members of the rival gangs. The scene had to be cut due to a lack of funds and the absence of permits for additional filming at that location.
- Initially, director Wilson Yip planned a different ending in which Donnie Yen's character would be shot after the fight with Tony, played by Colin Chow. However, after screenings, he decided to change the ending so that Yen's character survives.
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