10 Movies Every Action Fan Needs To See

Full Contact is another of Hong Kong director Ringo Lam’s gangster movies with Chow Yun Fat, but unlike their previous collaborations City On Fire and Prison On Fire, it’s loaded with gun battles and never takes itself too seriously.

Chow plays a thief who launches a bloody vendetta against his colleagues following a double cross, which is all the plot that’s needed to set in motion a succession of over-the-top-and-through-the-woods action sequence scenes. In one berserk sequence, Lam’s camera tracks the bullets during a shootout, flying across the room and shattering plate glass windows.

Particularly memorable is Simon Yam as the film’s flamboyant villain, who wears pink shirts (with ruffles), and tells Chow he has a sexy telephone voice yet has no problem shooting people in the face. When he admits to our hero that he’d like nothing more than for them to die in each other’s arms, Chow shoots him and says, “Go masturbate in hell!”