Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #142568 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-09-20
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.66:1
• Formats: Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: Chinese, English
• Subtitled in: Chinese, English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 104 minutes

Customer Reviews

Here We Go Again.
Here we go again with another stick of Hong Kong dynamite. Undercover cop, Coke (Lau Ching Wan) and Triad Leader, Chiu (Francis Ng) are killed by good cop, Huang (Anthony Wong) in a bust gone bad. Years later, the sons of the dead men want revenge against Huang, who has become one of the best detectives on the force. Coke's son, 7-Up (Raymond Wong) is making a great name for himself as a smart young cop. Chiu's son, Wai (Jordan Chan) has surpassed his father and is the new king of the underworld. 7-Up eventually becomes a colleague of Huang and is torn between right and wrong. Wai, on the other hand, still wants Huang dead. Wong Jing and Marco Mak do a great job directing the all-star cast which also features Gillian Chung and the legendary Patrick Tse. If you are a HK action junkie like I am, you will definitely enjoy Colour Of The Truth.

"Simple: I'm the cop, you're the robber."
Colour of the Truth may be pitched at the Infernal Affairs market, but it's a smart cop thriller with more than enough going for it to stand on its own merits. Years after his father (Lau Ching Wan) was shot by one of the other cops in his squad (Anthony Wong), a new recruit finds himself working for the same man. Keeping his own identity secret from his new boss, at first it's not any clearer whether he has another agenda - especially when approached by the son of the gangster who died alongside his father to take mutual revenge - than it is whether Wong is a good cop, a bad cop, the Devil in disguise or a social worker in a world where appearances can be fatally deceptive. You know it's going to end as it started, with three men and a gun on a rooftop, but how it gets there is the fun. There are as many twists in the characters as there are in the plots, not least Wong's at once open and enigmatic protagonist with a mind like a filing cabinet (you even get to hear Wong talk in a Cockney accent at one point!) while the action's not wanting either. If it's not always entirely believable it's put together with style, intelligence and imagination and makes for a particularly satisfying thriller.