The Big Heat (1988, Johnnie To & Andrew Kam)

The earliest To movie I’ve seen by five years, but something seems fishy… is this actually a Tsui Hark movie? Good Cop John is a crack shot but has spinal issues and his hands lock up… Clumsy Lun is incompetent… and Kam has moves. Guy who kills a bunch of people in a hospital meets his doom in an elevator shaft. This was written by Gordon Chan, who’d one-up his gunfight-in-a-hospital scenario in Hard-Boiled. The hand injury plot doesn’t work but it’s a brutal little movie.

Up top is Malaysian Ong and Kam (Hard Boiled‘s Mad Dog), below left is our hero (Waise Lee, Running Out of Time) and his girl Maggie (Betty Mak of the Iron Butterfly trilogy) who will be shot in the head in the next scene after discovering a cocaine conspiracy:

Clumsy Lun scribbling on his girl Joey “White Snake” Wong, two scenes before Lun is rigged with a grenade vest and blown to bits: