Raging Fire
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Cheung Sung-bong is a highly respected cop with a long history of success in dangerous cases. However, his past soon comes back to haunt him when a former protégé resurfaces, seeking revenge.
Our read · Raging Fire (2021) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · crime · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of Raging Fire
What watching it is actually like.
“You want Donnie Yen and Nicholas Tse tearing through Hong Kong cop revenge.”
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