A criminal ring, using mostly mainland Chinese prostitutes to serve rich and influential underworld figures, finds themselves in hot water when one of their girls dies from a rough, drug-fuelled sex session with a Yakuza boss. Her badly decomposed corpse is found in the sea triggering a police investigation led by O Chun-Hung. Meanwhile, Lok Han (Dick Wei) has come from China to Hong Kong, to find his sister, who has ties to the prostitute ring that's under investigation...
Man, does Johnny Wang Lung Wei know how to shoot tough and gritty action scenes! I love all of his directorial efforts (Widow Warriors and Hong Kong Godfather being my favourites) and revisited 'City Warriors' recently for the 3rd time.
Despite a fairly convoluted way of telling, what it essentially quite a simple story, the action , which is what most of us are here for, hits hard when it counts. The scene of a ferocious husband & wife gang shooting it out with the police is fantastic and up there with the best of what HK action cinema had to offer at the time. Shum Wai in drag as a sleazy, sadistic pimp is pretty entertaining and there are several solid scenes with Ken Lo, most notably when he scales an apartment block to carry out a hit.
Performances are generally respectable all round. Carina Lau is top-billed but the film mainly belongs to Dick Wei, Ken Lo and O Chun-Hung who are all on top form.
