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It's been a while since Dante Lam made a real Dante Lam flick. For the past 6 years, he's been mostly doing Chinese-commissioned movies, which isn't his strong suit. Bursting Point is a return to form for Lam, reaching back to the glory days of Hong Kong action cinema, though without adding anything new. The plot combines two popular action film premises. On the one hand, you have the story of a mole, infiltrating a drug gang and getting chummy with his new friends. On the other a more dramatic story about people trying to survive in the Golden Triangle. Hence the longish runtime. There are many familiar Hong Kong faces here, and Dante Lam is still pretty competent when it comes to setting up an action scene. The film's a bit too long though and there's nothing here that you haven't seen before (if you're familiar with HK action cinema that is). With so few Hong Kong films being released nowadays, a film like this is pretty cool, but it has lost some of its edge.Read all