{"id":18974,"date":"2026-09-08T21:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T01:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18974"},"modified":"2026-09-07T07:51:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T11:51:32","slug":"full-contact-1992-ringo-lam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18974","title":{"rendered":"Full Contact (1992, Ringo Lam)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few groups of ultimate badass killer burglars get into death feuds with each other because nobody can act professional for just a few seconds at a time.  A couple of love triangles here: hot dancer Mona is dating extreme badass Chow Yun-Fat (in his extreme badass era, same year as <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/16062\">Hard Boiled<\/a><\/em>) then when he disappears she bounces to sniveling ponytail weenie Anthony Wong.  And Wong bounces from his best friend Chow to gay magician Simon Yam, falling in with Yam&#8217;s gang of villains (a girl named Slut and a guy who I just saw <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/18973\">Riki-oh<\/a> kill).<\/p>\n<p><em>Injured Chow rescuing a dog:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/contact1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/contact2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>Chow is supposedly killed on a job in Thailand, so everyone&#8217;s upset when he comes back around and starts using traitor Anthony as a spy.  Didn&#8217;t feel as distinctive as <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/16818\">the last<\/a> Ringo Lam movie I saw, just a 90s actioner, the actors giving it as much life as they can until it&#8217;s time for the finale when twenty cars blow up while Chow and Yam have their monologues and shootouts.  That&#8217;s not to say I didn&#8217;t have a great time watching these psychos torment and kill each other.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/contact3.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/contact4.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few groups of ultimate badass killer burglars get into death feuds with each other because nobody can act professional for just a few seconds at a time. A couple of love triangles here: hot dancer Mona is dating extreme badass Chow Yun-Fat (in his extreme badass era, same year as Hard Boiled) then when [&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":[451,2917,632,2820,32,216,3130,2915,1027],"class_list":["post-18974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-anthony-wong","tag-chow-yun-fat","tag-heist","tag-hong-kong","tag-magic","tag-ringo-lam","tag-simon-yam","tag-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18974","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=18974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19012,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18974\/revisions\/19012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}