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Danny is a young cop partnered with Nick, a seasoned but ethically tainted veteran. As the two try to stop a gang war in Chinatown, Danny relies on Nick but grows increasingly uncomfortable with the way Nick gets things done.
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Danny is a young cop partnered with Nick, a seasoned but ethically tainted veteran. As the two try to stop a gang war in Chinatown, Danny relies on Nick but grows increasingly uncomfortable with the way Nick gets things done.
Soundtrack of the Year | 1999
Budget 25,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 15,156,200 USD
Kim Chan plays a crime-lord named Benny Wong nicknamed Uncle Benny. Chan also played a crime-lord nicknamed Uncle Benny in Lethal Weapon 4 (1998).
The film was originally cast with the Mark Walberg part played by Ethan Hawke, but production was ended to accomodate Chow Yun-Fat's production schedule.
In the original script, when Nick Chen walks in on May feeding Henry Vu grapes in the bath, she was originally supposed to be giving him oral sex. Chow Yun-Fat said that Chen would not continue a relationship with May after witnessing this act, and the grape-feeding was suggested.
In the lamp store shootout and the massage parlor raid, there are close-ups of Chen shooting a criminal in the head at point blank range with a small revolver. These were directly inspired by Eddie Adams' famous Vietnam War photo of South Vietnamese general Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing handcuffed Viet Cong member Nguyen Van Lem on February 1, 1968.
Director James Foley decided that the movie should have a deliberately exaggerated visual style, with multi-colored fluorescent lighting, flashing strobe lights, and constantly moving handheld cameras with whip-pans and snap zooms, because he thought his last few movies had been visually boring and formulaic, and he wanted to "reinvent" himself as a filmmaker. He originally thought cinematographer Juan Ruiz Anchía would hate some of the ideas he had in mind, but Anchía loved them.
"Danny Wallace: The ends justify the means, Pops. Sean Wallace: The ends is bullshit. The means is what you live with."
"Nick Chen: You know Chinese don't trust whites or cops, and you send me a white cop?"
