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The Corruptor

110 minutes (18) EV
Director: James Foley
review by Ian Shutter

Although he plays the villain of the title, Chow-Yun Fat eclipses mock heroic co-star Mark Wahlberg in every scene in this formula, but nonetheless classy, cop thriller. Set in New York's Chinatown, where the Asian Crimes Unit (led by you know who) is failing to prevent a gang war between the old Chinese mafia don, Uncle Benny, and fierce young rivals, for control of the district's Triad-maintained rackets. There's a great five-minute car chase and running gun battle, which leaves countless vehicles wrecked and dozens of bystanders dead or injured, and is quite the most impressively staged urban action sequence I have seen for many a year. Themes of loyalty, morality and trust underscore the straightforward plot about police corruption and a joint FBI and Internal Affairs inquiry into Chinatown's crooks and cops, and crooked cops, and escalating street violence. If you like Cimino's Year Of The Dragon (and I know our editor does), this is for you!

Ian Shutter
originally published online in VideoVista #14, May 2000 issue

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