The Corruptor

Nick Chen (Chow Yun-Fat) was the first Chinese-born immigrant in the NYPD, and is now one of the force's most decorated officers. As such, he's been named leader of the city's Asian Gang Unit, who are the primary peacekeepers in Chinatown. Trouble has just arrived for the Triads, the long-entrenched ...more

As a take on the familiar cop-buddy movie, The Corruptor has as many twists and turns as a Raymond Chandler novel, if not nearly as much panache -- or comprehensibility. This was Hong Kong action star Chow Yun-Fat's second American film (1998's The Replacement Killers was the first), and director James Foley gets a lot of mileage out of imitating the trademark style of John Woo -- at least, as far as the action scenes are concerned. The first glimpse of Yun-Fat's cynical, wiseass New York ...more