1988 · action · cop · gun-fu
Tiger Cage
Directed by Yuen Woo-ping1h 32m1988
Something fishy is going on in the anti-Drug Trafficking Unit of the HK Police, and only a few honest cops know that the corruption goes all the way to the top. However, they must prove their case quickly, and by unconventional means, after they are framed for murder and drug-trafficking themselves. Dodging bullets from cops and criminals alike, the race is on to clear their names, protect their loved ones, and bring their corrupt colleagues to justice.
Our read: Tiger Cage (1988) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · cop · gun-fu entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / cop, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
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