Turning Point

Hong Kong

Pinnacle Films

R4 DVD

Chinese with English subtitles

Laughing, a young man whose Triad boss has given him the odd nickname, is deep in trouble. Although a member of the Triad run by Number One he has been ordered to join the Police Force and work undercover for the Triad. In turn the Police have assigned Laughing to penetrate the Triads and inform on them. For secrecy, only Officer Xian knows of Laughing’s double life. Number One knows the details as well – in his youth he was also a double agent working for the Triads. Now Officer Xian is in a coma in hospital and the police, not knowing the circumstances, are out to get Laughing and the other Triad members.

To complicate things Laughing’s girlfriend is the sister of another Triad leader, the vicious Zatoi.

The Triad members believe Laughing could be a spy - too many of their operations are being intercepted by the Police. Finally Zatoi declares that Laughing must die.

Laughing is now being hunted by the Triads as well as the Police. Number One wants to find him and get him out of Hong Kong to some place safer, but Laughing won’t go without his girlfriend Karen. Other members of Number One’s Triad are sure he is the informer and will kill him on sight. Zatoi wants him dead as an informer and as his sister’s boyfriend. The Police want him dead because when he escaped from custody an officer was killed.

Now Laughing has to decide where his loyalties really lie.

Turning Point is a violent film but the violence is an important part of the plot, not just gratuitous. The Chinese are producing some excellent cops ‘n robbers films with good actors and plots and less obsession with special effects. Apart from the dodgy translation in the subtitles this film is a first class example of the genre.

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