Underground Express (1990)

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省港旗兵第四集地下通道 (1990)

Underground Express

Reviewed by: mrblue
Date: 06/17/2010

The final entry in Michael and Johnny Mak's Long Arm of the Law series, Underground Express once again tells a story of gangsters versus police, focusing on the difference between how both factions act depending if they're coming from Hong Kong or Mainland China. There's some decent action that delivers a high body count, but the rushed production and editing that was obviously and clumsily done to avoid a Category III rating regulates this to being just another average Hong Kong cops and robbers flick.

Reviewer Score: 5

Reviewed by: hkcinema
Date: 12/08/1999

The truth about the way that student leaders of the ChineseDemocracy Movement were smuggled out of China to safety in the West in 1989 is now widely known. Underground Express offers a thinly fictionalized dramatization of the same events. After the June 4 Massacre in Beijing, Hong Kong liberal leader Ouyang is eager to help China's student activists escape from the authorities. Enlisting the services of a local Triad gang, and pursued by both China's security forces and the Royal Hong Kong Police Force, the students embark on a dangerous journey to the China/Hong Kong border.

[Reviewed by Rim Films Catalog]