Thursday, May 14, 2020

On the Wrong Track (1983)

Middling early 1980s HK youth drama. Paul (Andy Lau) and Ah De (Chau Wah Yim) are brothers in high school who are always getting into scrapes. Nothing unusual there but these scrapes include baseball bat fights, wrecking a Ferrari and wearing women's underwear in class. A further complication in their lives is that their Dad (Yueh Hua) is a cop...

Despite regular beatings by their Dad and the police they don't seem to want to learn their lesson. Things come to a head with the vandalising of a supermarket, De gets killed by violent police man King Kong (Lau Kwok Shing) and of course Paul wants revenge...

The film is very much of it's time, the usual HK movie mix of humour, melodrama and ultra violence and looks great (it will certainly make you nostalgic for 1980s HK). Although the film isn't too exceptional it is notable for being Andy Lau's first lead role.