Xia dao Gao Fei (Full Contact)

Xia dao Gao Fei (Full Contact) (1993)

  • 88% of critics liked it
    (8 reviews)

  • 70% of users liked it
    (3,803 ratings)

Another entry into the "cheer for the most likeable bad guy" series of Hong Kong action flicks, Full Contact tells the oft-told tale of betrayal and revenge, but serves it up as a potent cocktail of Western convention mixed with the trademarked Hong Kong style. When Jeff's (Hong Kong superstar Chow… More

R, 1 hr. 39 min.
Directed By
Ringo Lam
Written By
Yin Nam
Genres
Drama, Action & Adventure, Art House & International
In Theaters
Jan 1, 1992 Wide
On DVD
Nov 7, 2000

Critic Reviews

  • Scott Weinberg, eFilmCritic.com

    Clearly this is a movie made in a world where the "MPAA" holds no sway; the violence is intensely brutal. In a good way, though.

  • Beth Accomando, KPBS.org

    With Full Contact, Lam takes the action genre and proceeds to not merely transcend it but explode it.

  • Dan Lybarger, Nitrate Online

    Lots of mayhem, and that's what's great about it. Chow is at his most charismatic.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Tsubaki S


    Not a classic but still a fun ride from the pre-hollywood days of Ringo Lam and Chow Yun Fat. Also, great performance by Simon Yam as the charismatic over-the-top villian.

  • John M


    "Full Contacti" is a conventional story of betrayal/revenge as many others we haven seen on the screen. The differential of this movie are the great action scenes. The choreography of the fights is amazing and stylish sequences of the bullets in a gun shot. This story is… More

  • Christopher B


    Chow Yun Fat, Simon Yam, Anthony Wong and Ringo Lam. Add them up and it equals awesome (or four).