Undercover (2007)
Feng (Shawn Yue) is a former undercover cop whose post-assignment life has begun to rapidly disintegrate. Feng and former triad brother Fai (Sam Lee of Gen-X Cops) are caught using cocaine, and the ensuing melee leaves a police detective dead, with Fai fingered as the culprit. Fai must go on the run, but he no longer trusts Feng, who he believes may be leveraging their brotherhood for advancement in the police ranks.
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Highly Overrated But Still Good
If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.
I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.
The movie is a straight forward, low-to-no budget crime drama about an ex-undercover officer and his life after he is removed from service and outed. It is very straight forward. At under an hour and a half it can't afford not to be.Everything to make the film enjoyable is there. The direction/cinematography is solid, very good in places. The acting is good, everyone plays their parts, though most characters are very underwritten. Actually, the entire movie is underwritten. It could have easily been thirty minutes longer and fleshed out things more. The film as is hits the ground running, and doesn't really have much buildup nor a satisfying climax.The film was enjoyable nonetheless, and it is so short that it makes a good distraction if anything else.