Review of Full Contact (1992) by Owen D — 25 Nov 2012

Ringo Lam, looking for quick cash, dug through his garbage and found "Full Contact." Though intended to be a commercial venture Lam's take on Boorman's "Point Blank" (1967) resembles something of a grindhouse feature with all the underpinnings (the protagonist's a biker; the antagonist's a sociopathic homosexual with a sexpot henchmen named Virgin; the plot involves a double-cross following a heist).

With these junk food specs, "Full Contact" immediately found a home in the West, though it performed below projection at home where audiences disapproved of Chow Yun-fat as a flat-topped biker who prefers butterfly knives to 9mm's.

Supposedly, in one sequence, the actors refused Lam's request to fire live ammunition.