{"id":17543,"date":"2025-05-26T20:00:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T00:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17543"},"modified":"2025-05-26T11:12:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T15:12:48","slug":"the-big-heat-1988-johnnie-to-andrew-kam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17543","title":{"rendered":"The Big Heat (1988, Johnnie To &#038; Andrew Kam)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The earliest To movie I&#8217;ve seen by five years, but something seems fishy&#8230; is this actually a Tsui Hark movie?  Good Cop John is a crack shot but has spinal issues and his hands lock up&#8230; Clumsy Lun is incompetent&#8230; 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&#8217;d one-up his gunfight-in-a-hospital scenario in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/16062\">Hard-Boiled<\/a><\/em>.  The hand injury plot doesn&#8217;t work but it&#8217;s a brutal little movie.<\/p>\n<p>Up top is Malaysian Ong and Kam (<em>Hard Boiled<\/em>&#8216;s Mad Dog), below left is our hero (Waise Lee, <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15474\">Running Out of Time<\/a><\/em>) and his girl Maggie (Betty Mak of the <em>Iron Butterfly<\/em> trilogy) who will be shot in the head in the next scene after discovering a cocaine conspiracy:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/bigheat1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>Clumsy Lun scribbling on his girl Joey &#8220;<a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14354\">White Snake<\/a>&#8221; Wong, two scenes before Lun is rigged with a grenade vest and blown to bits:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image25\/bigheat2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The earliest To movie I&#8217;ve seen by five years, but something seems fishy&#8230; is this actually a Tsui Hark movie? Good Cop John is a crack shot but has spinal issues and his hands lock up&#8230; Clumsy Lun is incompetent&#8230; and Kam has moves. Guy who kills a bunch of people in a hospital meets [&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":[357,136,2978,2890,879],"class_list":["post-17543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-drugs","tag-hospital","tag-joey-wong","tag-johnnie-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17543","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=17543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17578,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17543\/revisions\/17578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}