{"id":15758,"date":"2023-07-07T20:00:38","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T00:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15758"},"modified":"2023-07-06T21:30:31","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T01:30:31","slug":"full-alert-1997-ringo-lam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15758","title":{"rendered":"Full Alert (1997, Ringo Lam)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imprisoned bad guy Mak Kwan (Francis Ng of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15037\">The Mission<\/a><\/em>) gets sprung by his gang, so the Mad Detective (Lau Ching-wan) follows the baddie&#8217;s girl (Amanda Lee of <em>Human Pork Chop<\/em>), correctly thinking they&#8217;ll connect, while the escapee plots a big heist of a racetrack vault.<\/p>\n<p><em>The gang watching their bomb trap go boom:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/fullalert1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Pretty good cops-n-robbers movie, in which almost everybody involved gets killed horribly.  People love Ringo Lam, but I dunno.  Sean Gilman&#8217;s letterboxd at least gives you something to think about, calling this movie The End of Hong Kong:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sure the genre, and Hong Kong, goes on. But everything that follows, your Johnnie Tos and Andrew Laus and so on, is different. Less immediate, less solid. A level removed from what was. Films about films or ideas or ideas of films.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Mak Kwan&#8217;s great success, with a few minutes to live:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/fullalert2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imprisoned bad guy Mak Kwan (Francis Ng of The Mission) gets sprung by his gang, so the Mad Detective (Lau Ching-wan) follows the baddie&#8217;s girl (Amanda Lee of Human Pork Chop), correctly thinking they&#8217;ll connect, while the escapee plots a big heist of a racetrack vault. The gang watching their bomb trap go boom: Pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[451,2820,32,3130],"class_list":["post-15758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-heist","tag-hong-kong","tag-ringo-lam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15783,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15758\/revisions\/15783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}