SPL Asian New Classics

International action stars Donnie Yen and Somma Hung hove come together to make one of the most visually intense and psychologically tricky police thrillers to come along in recent years. In SPL, themes of vengeance and justice play out over a sumptuous op of neon lights and urban sprawl in a story told with unusual style and flair.

Simon Yam plays a detective who is trying to capture the enigmatic crime boss Po, played by Hung. Eventually it’s time to hand the case over to a younger replacement, but I undercover police officers turn up dead, tensions rise and soon old grudges demand to be resolved.

Action fans will be amazed when they see Yen and Hung’s first ever onscreen fight. It’s as if they have waited for a project as visually striking and thematically appropriate as this for them to team up. What may superficially seem like another film about two police officers in pursuit of a vicious killer, quickly reveals itself to be something much more fantastic.