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Full Alert (1997)
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Original name: 高度戒備
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Police Inspector Pao is trying to catch Mak Kwan, a gang member who is first arrested, but then escapes from the prison. By chance, Pao realizes that the target of Kwan's gang is the H.K. Jockey Club
Style:
exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
car chase, heroic bloodshed, heist, gang, battles, rivalry, law enforcement, confined, on the run, partners, mafia, prison escape, revenge, gunfight, bomb, police officer, chases and races, danger, deadly, crime, shoot out, crimes
Time:
90s
Place:
china, hong kong, asia
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