City on Fire 4K 1987 Ultra HD 2160p

Chow Yun-Fat infiltrates a gang that robs stores. All this is accompanied by shooting and dead bodies. In the gang, he becomes close to a simple but kind gangster, becoming attached to him and beginning to experience pangs of conscience, as he is forced to betray him. Especially since he already has similar sad experience—on a previous assignment, he also turned a friend in to the police.

User Review

I heard that Tarantino copied his Reservoir Dogs from this film, so I decided to watch the original.

Hong Kong, 1987, Ringo Lam as director and a very young Chow Yun-fat in the lead role of an undercover cop experiencing personal drama. He wants to quit, but his uncle forces him to infiltrate a gang of robbers one more time. There are dull Chinese secondary dialogues and main dialogues full of human pain and psychology. There are the monkey grimaces of Hong Kong actors and Chow Yun-fat's simply “Smoochy” acting. There are fights and shootouts in the style of “dish-dish” and absolutely brilliant cinematography bordering on high art in other moments. The film is uneven. But it has everything a film needs to be called a masterpiece of cinema and drama. Love and hate, duty and careerism, friendship and betrayal - all intertwined in a tight, bleeding knot.

As for “Tarantino copied it,” that's nonsense, of course. Rather, it is a prequel to Reservoir Dogs. Roughly speaking, Reservoir Dogs is the last five minutes of City on Fire. Tarantino took the final scenes and turned them into his own drama. But their roots still lie in City on Fire.

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Codec: HEVC / H.265 (80.3 Mb/s)
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10+
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1

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#Cantonese: FLAC 2.0
#Cantonese: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono (48kHz, 24-bit)
#English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono (48kHz, 24-bit)

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