Monday, August 26, 2019

Off Track (1991)

Jacky Cheung stars as a Triad street racer thug  who of course has a dad in the police (there seem to be that many HK cops with sons in the gangs you'd think someone would have noticed a link by now)...

Jacky races Max Mok and they come to car blows followed by people blows. Then Max falls for Jacky's sister Loletta Lee and gets more than just his oats for his troubles. (Hint : never try and date a Triad's sister, especially a really violent Triad.)

Jacky wants a way out of his life of crime though after his Dad is killed but of course there is one last race... against Max. Then it looks like he has been killed by Max and Jacky's gang go crazy in order to avenge their big brother...

Its all very silly with typically over the top Triad hi-jinks really with a very bloody and tragic ending. Its a film of it's time and that time is massive brick cellphones and Sierra XR4is. The film isn't that great but the street racing scenes are.