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* DropTheHammer: A group of armed men tries attacking Fat while he’s in his apartment with his girlfriend, using hammers to smash the locks of his door and then attacking Fat using the same weapon.
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The 2005 sequel, ''Colour of the Loyalty'', comes with a set of new characters, although the story is told in the same tone and in similar mold. This time there is a new supercop named Fat, who ends up being assigned as the bodyguard of triad boss, Long while posing as in informant.
Twelve years later in 2017, comes the third and last (according to series producer Wong Jing) installment, ''Colour of the Game'', starring Creator/SimonYam as a mobster about to retire. But before he can quit the mob, he have to flesh out an informant among his team of most trusted bodyguards. Has significantly more action, including John Woo-style shootouts and explosions, but offers less on plot.
Twelve years later in 2017, comes the third and last (according to series producer Wong Jing) installment, ''Colour of the Game'', starring Creator/SimonYam as a mobster about to retire. But before he can quit the mob, he have to flesh out an informant among his team of most trusted bodyguards. Has significantly more action, including John Woo-style shootouts and explosions, but offers less on plot.
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The 2005 sequel, ''Colour of the Loyalty'', comes with a set of new characters, although the story is told in the same tone and in similar mold. This time there is a new supercop named Fat, who ends up being assigned as the bodyguard of triad boss, Long while posing as in an informant.
Twelve years later in 2017, comes the third and last (according to series producer Wong Jing) installment, ''Colour of the Game'', starring Creator/SimonYam as a mobster about to retire. But before he can quit the mob, hehave has to flesh out an informant among his team of most trusted bodyguards. Has significantly more action, including John Woo-style shootouts and explosions, but offers less on plot.
Twelve years later in 2017, comes the third and last (according to series producer Wong Jing) installment, ''Colour of the Game'', starring Creator/SimonYam as a mobster about to retire. But before he can quit the mob, he
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* BodyDouble: When Huang, Cola and their team of officers tries to track down Cyclops in a shopping complex, they realize Cyclops is accompanied by his own group of mercenaries, and they all have the same facial mask on. The officers frantically try to arrest the real Cyclops while searching between all the doubles.
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* BodyDouble: When Huang, Cola and their team of officers tries try to track down Cyclops in a shopping complex, they realize Cyclops is accompanied by his own group of mercenaries, and they all have the same facial mask on. The officers frantically try to arrest the real Cyclops while searching between all the doubles.
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* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Cola certainly thinks so about his dead father, Seven-Up. Later details in the movie reveals the truth about his father being a corrupt cop.
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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: Despite Cyclops being hyped up by the film as the main villain, and surviving being shot by Inspector Huang, barely before the climax can begin, it turns out Ray, TheManBehindTheMan and the real BigBad, has already killed Cyclops in a YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness moment. Cola and Huang arrives just in time to see Ray revealing himself to be disguised as Cyclops, before throwing the real Cyclops off a roof]].
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* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: Despite Cyclops being hyped up by the film as the main villain, and surviving being shot by Inspector Huang, barely before the climax can begin, it turns out Ray, TheManBehindTheMan and the real BigBad, has already killed Cyclops in a YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness moment. Cola and Huang arrives arrive just in time to see Ray revealing himself to be disguised as Cyclops, before throwing the real Cyclops off a roof]].
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* MissionImpossibleCableDrop: The selected method of a mercenary team coming after Inspector Huang and Cola while both men are on the top floor of Huang’s home. Huang manage to hear them approaching, and gun down the first mercenary who then falls off a tall balcony. Cue shootout.
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* MissionImpossibleCableDrop: The selected method of a mercenary team coming after Inspector Huang and Cola while both men are on the top floor of Huang’s home. Huang manage manages to hear them approaching, and gun down the first mercenary who then falls off a tall balcony. Cue shootout.
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** The grenade trick turns out to be a ChekhovsGun in the ending, [[spoiler: when Casper manage to arrest Boss Wong… by shoving a grenade between Wong’s thighs, sans pin. And tells him to better stay in that position until the police arrives to arrest him, or simply let himself be blown up]].
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** The grenade trick turns out to be a ChekhovsGun in the ending, [[spoiler: when Casper manage to arrest Boss Wong… by shoving a grenade between Wong’s thighs, sans pin. And tells him to better stay in that position until the police arrives arrive to arrest him, or simply let himself be blown up]].
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* SlashedThroat: Joyce, revealing herself to be TheMole, does this to one of the officers which was supposed to be guarding her.
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* WalkingSwimsuitScene: Madam Wong in one scene near her pool, just when the police are searching her husband’s mansion. Casper managed to had an eyeful of MaleGaze when asking her questions while she’s still in her leopard-spotted bikini.
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* WalkingSwimsuitScene: Madam Wong in one scene near her pool, just when the police are searching her husband’s mansion. Casper managed to had have an eyeful of MaleGaze when asking her questions while she’s still in her leopard-spotted bikini.
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* FanserviceExtra: Several girls in skimpy bikinis shows up in the yacht scene. They don’t serve any purpose other than being background filler.
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* GunsAkimboBadassCrew: Boss Wallace’s team, consisting of Chun, Tyson, Sky, Lily, and Robert.
* BaldOfEvil: Nigel, the BigBad.
* EarAche: Choi-tau, in a standoff scene with Chun, ends up being captured alive after having his ear shot off.
* ExcrementStatement: Choi-tau, infiltrating the party at a rival boss’ mansion, pees in the boss’ indoor pool. With the boss’ wife in it. [[spoiler: Before he jumps in and drowns her]].
* FanserviceExtra: Several girls in skimpy bikinis shows up in the yacht scene. They don’t serve any purpose other than being background filler.
* FlushTheEvidence: Right in the opening raid scene where police officers bust the drug dealers’ hideout, some of them are seen attempting to flush their cocaine down the toilet.
* GunsAkimbo: Tyson in the final scene, when he [[spoiler: ends up getting gunned down while holding a gun on each hand]].
* HarpoonGun: Used by Wallace's BadassCrew during the yacht infiltration.
* BaldOfEvil: Nigel, the BigBad.
* EarAche: Choi-tau, in a standoff scene with Chun, ends up being captured alive after having his ear shot off.
* ExcrementStatement: Choi-tau, infiltrating the party at a rival boss’ mansion, pees in the boss’ indoor pool. With the boss’ wife in it. [[spoiler: Before he jumps in and drowns her]].
* FanserviceExtra: Several girls in skimpy bikinis shows up in the yacht scene. They don’t serve any purpose other than being background filler.
* FlushTheEvidence: Right in the opening raid scene where police officers bust the drug dealers’ hideout, some of them are seen attempting to flush their cocaine down the toilet.
* GunsAkimbo: Tyson in the final scene, when he [[spoiler: ends up getting gunned down while holding a gun on each hand]].
* HarpoonGun: Used by Wallace's BadassCrew during the yacht infiltration.
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* JabbaTableManners: Uncle Slaughter during the dinner scene with Wallace and Wallace’s team, where he would overflow his bowl of rice with toppings, gobble up its contents, and spill contents all over the front of the dining table. Justified though, because he’s both nervous and afraid at the same time with Wallace staring intimidatingly at him.
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* SamusIsAGirl: Lily’s first scene in a garage had her working under a car in overalls and wearing a cap, and partially obscured to the audience, who immediately assumes she’s one of the men working for Wallace… until she gets out from underneath the vehicle.
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* WeHaveToGetTheBulletOut: After Lily gets hit in the shoulder by a stray bullet, there’s a rather graphic and stomach-churning scene where Chun digs the bullet out of her shoulders with a pair of tweezers.
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* OnceMoreWithClarity: The opening scene makes it look like superintendent Huang betrays, and shoots Senior Inspector "Seven-Up" Chan and Corporal Tam, but later on another flashback with Huang explaining the details reveals that Seven-Up betrays and shoots Tam, and Huang is forced to shoot Seven-Up in self-defense.
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* OnceMoreWithClarity: The opening scene makes it look like superintendent Huang betrays, and shoots Senior Inspector "Seven-Up" Chan and Corporal Tam, but later on [[spoiler: another flashback with Huang explaining the details reveals that Seven-Up betrays and shoots Tam, and Huang is forced to shoot Seven-Up in self-defense.self-defense]].
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* BookEnds: With Cola (first as a child, then an adult) using his finger to do a shooting motion at the audience.
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* BloodierAndGoried: Compared to ''Colour of the Truth''. Plenty of bloody squibs are used to depict death scenes, and the onscreen fatalities are actually more graphic this time.
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* BloodierAndGoried: BloodierAndGorier: Compared to ''Colour of the Truth''. Plenty of bloody squibs are used to depict death scenes, and the onscreen fatalities are actually more graphic this time.
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Twelve years later in 2017, comes the third and last (according to series producer Wong Jing) installment, ''Colour of the Game'', starring Creator/SimonYam as a mobster about to retire. But before he can quit the mob, he have to flesh out an informant among his team of most trusted bodyguards. Has significantly more action, including John Woo-style shootouts and explosions, but offers less on plot.
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Twelve years later in 2017, comes the third and last (according to series producer Wong Jing) installment, ''Colour of the Game'', starring Creator/SimonYam as a mobster about to retire. But before he can quit the mob, he have to flesh out an informant among his team of most trusted bodyguards. Has significantly more action, including John Woo-style shootouts and explosions, but offers less on plot.plot.
!!''Colour of the Truth'' contains examples of:
* AerosolFlamethrower: Cyclops, leader of the arms dealer, ambushes two SWAT officers by sneaking up on them, aerosol spray in one hand, lighter in another.
* ArcWords: Huang’s advice to Cola, which is repeated in the ending scene when [[spoiler: Cola turns his gun and shoots Ray, TheManBehindTheMan, from point-blank range using his last bullet]].
--> '''Wong''': "You must always leave an extra bullet in your chamber. You'll never know when you might need it."
* BehindAStick: When Cyclops tries taking hostages in Wong’s mansion, he demands for Wong’s daughter, Katie, to come out. She did, but quickly retreats – just in time for Inspector Huang, using her silhouette as obstruction, to reveal himself and shoot Cyclops. Keep in mind Katie is a young, slim lady smaller in size than Huang, played by Anthony Wong, but to be fair there is a table between the two of them.
* BigFancyHouse: Boss Wong’s mansion, complete with its own swimming pool.
* BodyDouble: When Huang, Cola and their team of officers tries to track down Cyclops in a shopping complex, they realize Cyclops is accompanied by his own group of mercenaries, and they all have the same facial mask on. The officers frantically try to arrest the real Cyclops while searching between all the doubles.
* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: In the middle of a shootout in Huang’s house, Huang’s disabled father motions for him to look under their house’s toilet. Huang does exactly that (while questioning what the hell does his father want, considering they’re in the midst of a gunfight with killers who wants them dead surrounding the house) … and finds a World War II Era Potato masher grenade, which his father had kept with him for the past 50 years since the war. He ends up using that antique grenade to blow up two mercenaries coming after him.
* BulletproofVest: Cyclops wears a vest, which allows him to survive when Inspector Huang gets the drop on him and shoot him down.
* CoolShades: Worn by most of the characters in the movie. Huang even wears these during shootouts.
* DarkActionGirl: Joyce, who ruthlessly kills two police officers with ease when revealing herself to be TheMole.
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Cola certainly thinks so about his dead father, Seven-Up. Later details in the movie reveals the truth about his father being a corrupt cop.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The opening flashback is replayed near the end of the movie during the OnceMoreWithClarity scene, but its in black-and-white to depict how the flashback was from decades ago.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: Despite Cyclops being hyped up by the film as the main villain, and surviving being shot by Inspector Huang, barely before the climax can begin, it turns out Ray, TheManBehindTheMan and the real BigBad, has already killed Cyclops in a YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness moment. Cola and Huang arrives just in time to see Ray revealing himself to be disguised as Cyclops, before throwing the real Cyclops off a roof]].
* FingerGun: During the opening flashback, Cola Chan as a boy is shown doing this motion while imitating his police dad.
** In the end of the movie, Cola does this again to Huang, and the audience, before the credits start rolling.
* ImagineSpot: [[spoiler: After Joyce reveals her true colours, she then approaches Inspector Huang and shoots him… or at least that’s what she’s imagining. Truth is that Huang, while going through the potential suspects of whom may be TheMole, already semi-suspected Joyce, at which point he beats Joyce to the draw by shooting her non-fatally from below a table]].
* MasterOfDisguise: [[spoiler: Ray, who turns out to be the mercenary nicknamed Cyclops the whole time, having disguised himself with a wig and finally revealing himself in the final scene]].
* MenAreTheExpendableGender: Semi-averted with Debbie, the sole female officer on Huang’s team, getting killed by Joyce. But [[spoiler: played straight for Joyce, the sole female antagonist, who merely gets arrested by Huang]].
* AMinorKidroduction: Cola is introduced before the opening credits as a child waiting for his dad. Who doesn’t return due to his dad dying in a stake-out.
* MissionImpossibleCableDrop: The selected method of a mercenary team coming after Inspector Huang and Cola while both men are on the top floor of Huang’s home. Huang manage to hear them approaching, and gun down the first mercenary who then falls off a tall balcony. Cue shootout.
* OnceMoreWithClarity: The opening scene makes it look like superintendent Huang betrays, and shoots Senior Inspector "Seven-Up" Chan and Corporal Tam, but later on another flashback with Huang explaining the details reveals that Seven-Up betrays and shoots Tam, and Huang is forced to shoot Seven-Up in self-defense.
* PineappleSurprise:
** Casper’s attempt to arrest a suspect end with both of them struggling on the floor with each other, until said suspect, whom his pockets Casper is searching through, suddenly whips out a grenade. And [[OhCrap Casper happens to be holding its pin]].
** The grenade trick turns out to be a ChekhovsGun in the ending, [[spoiler: when Casper manage to arrest Boss Wong… by shoving a grenade between Wong’s thighs, sans pin. And tells him to better stay in that position until the police arrives to arrest him, or simply let himself be blown up]].
* PlayingPossum: Attempted by Cyclops, who gets shot by Inspector Huang but survives thanks to his Kevlar vest, and pretends to be dead behind a couch while trying to lure Huang closer to him. Luckily Cola is on a tall balcony and shouts a quick warning to Huang.
* PunnyName: Inspector "Seven-Up" Chan and his son, Inspector "Cola" Chan.
* TheQuietOne: Inspector Bao, who doesn’t like to talk. Inspector Casper, sharing an UncomfortableElevatorMoment, comments that Bao barely said eight words in a year while trying to strike up a conversation with him.
--> '''Casper''': "Well, you don't like to talk so much, so what if someone pisses you off? Huh? What if someone pisses you off?"
--> '''Bao''': ([[FlippingTheBird sticks out his middle finger]])
--> '''Casper''': "Oh come on…"
* SlashedThroat: Joyce, revealing herself to be TheMole, does this to one of the officers which was supposed to be guarding her.
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Ray in one scene is shown playing chess, reverse and Chinese chess ''blindfolded'', where he has a minion move the pieces for him while he merely names the squares for his pieces to move (e.g. Pawn to H4). And he wins.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: There is only one female officer on Inspector Huang’s team, Debbie. [[spoiler: Unlike most examples though, Debbie doesn’t outlive her male co-workers]].
* StayingWithFriends: When Cola had to share an apartment with Wong and Wong’s paralyzed vegetable father.
* WalkingSwimsuitScene: Madam Wong in one scene near her pool, just when the police are searching her husband’s mansion. Casper managed to had an eyeful of MaleGaze when asking her questions while she’s still in her leopard-spotted bikini.
!!''Colour of the Loyalty'' contains examples of:
* BloodierAndGoried: Compared to ''Colour of the Truth''. Plenty of bloody squibs are used to depict death scenes, and the onscreen fatalities are actually more graphic this time.
* BodyguardingABadass: Fat, the main character, is assigned to become Boss Long’s bodyguard, nevermind Long being the leader of a triad syndicate is a badass himself.
* CoatCape: Boss Long is shown wearing his coat like this in a few scenes, including the poster.
* DropTheHammer: A group of armed men tries attacking Fat while he’s in his apartment with his girlfriend, using hammers to smash the locks of his door and then attacking Fat using the same weapon.
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Plenty of characters from both sides smokes in the sequel, which is averted in the previous film. Boss Long himself is a CigarChomper who prefers thick Havana cigars.
* MalevolentMaskedMen: The henchmen in this movie are frequently seen wearing ski masks when attacking Fat or other characters.
* ShoutOut: The character, Fat, gets called "Creator/ChowYunFat" by Boss Long during a dinner scene.
!!''Colour of the Game'' contains examples of:
* GunsAkimbo
* HeroicBloodshed: This time with more shootouts and action scenes inspired by old-school John Woo.
* MexicanStandoff: With a pistol against a [[KukrisAreKool kukri]]…
* StuffBlowingUp: Plenty of explosions happens in this movie, may it be exploding cars, grenades, gas tanks... the last time something blows up in this movie, is the antique grenade from ''Colour of the Truth''.
* [[spoiler: WhiteShirtOfDeath]]
!!''Colour of the Truth'' contains examples of:
* AerosolFlamethrower: Cyclops, leader of the arms dealer, ambushes two SWAT officers by sneaking up on them, aerosol spray in one hand, lighter in another.
* ArcWords: Huang’s advice to Cola, which is repeated in the ending scene when [[spoiler: Cola turns his gun and shoots Ray, TheManBehindTheMan, from point-blank range using his last bullet]].
--> '''Wong''': "You must always leave an extra bullet in your chamber. You'll never know when you might need it."
* BehindAStick: When Cyclops tries taking hostages in Wong’s mansion, he demands for Wong’s daughter, Katie, to come out. She did, but quickly retreats – just in time for Inspector Huang, using her silhouette as obstruction, to reveal himself and shoot Cyclops. Keep in mind Katie is a young, slim lady smaller in size than Huang, played by Anthony Wong, but to be fair there is a table between the two of them.
* BigFancyHouse: Boss Wong’s mansion, complete with its own swimming pool.
* BodyDouble: When Huang, Cola and their team of officers tries to track down Cyclops in a shopping complex, they realize Cyclops is accompanied by his own group of mercenaries, and they all have the same facial mask on. The officers frantically try to arrest the real Cyclops while searching between all the doubles.
* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: In the middle of a shootout in Huang’s house, Huang’s disabled father motions for him to look under their house’s toilet. Huang does exactly that (while questioning what the hell does his father want, considering they’re in the midst of a gunfight with killers who wants them dead surrounding the house) … and finds a World War II Era Potato masher grenade, which his father had kept with him for the past 50 years since the war. He ends up using that antique grenade to blow up two mercenaries coming after him.
* BulletproofVest: Cyclops wears a vest, which allows him to survive when Inspector Huang gets the drop on him and shoot him down.
* CoolShades: Worn by most of the characters in the movie. Huang even wears these during shootouts.
* DarkActionGirl: Joyce, who ruthlessly kills two police officers with ease when revealing herself to be TheMole.
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Cola certainly thinks so about his dead father, Seven-Up. Later details in the movie reveals the truth about his father being a corrupt cop.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The opening flashback is replayed near the end of the movie during the OnceMoreWithClarity scene, but its in black-and-white to depict how the flashback was from decades ago.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: Despite Cyclops being hyped up by the film as the main villain, and surviving being shot by Inspector Huang, barely before the climax can begin, it turns out Ray, TheManBehindTheMan and the real BigBad, has already killed Cyclops in a YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness moment. Cola and Huang arrives just in time to see Ray revealing himself to be disguised as Cyclops, before throwing the real Cyclops off a roof]].
* FingerGun: During the opening flashback, Cola Chan as a boy is shown doing this motion while imitating his police dad.
** In the end of the movie, Cola does this again to Huang, and the audience, before the credits start rolling.
* ImagineSpot: [[spoiler: After Joyce reveals her true colours, she then approaches Inspector Huang and shoots him… or at least that’s what she’s imagining. Truth is that Huang, while going through the potential suspects of whom may be TheMole, already semi-suspected Joyce, at which point he beats Joyce to the draw by shooting her non-fatally from below a table]].
* MasterOfDisguise: [[spoiler: Ray, who turns out to be the mercenary nicknamed Cyclops the whole time, having disguised himself with a wig and finally revealing himself in the final scene]].
* MenAreTheExpendableGender: Semi-averted with Debbie, the sole female officer on Huang’s team, getting killed by Joyce. But [[spoiler: played straight for Joyce, the sole female antagonist, who merely gets arrested by Huang]].
* AMinorKidroduction: Cola is introduced before the opening credits as a child waiting for his dad. Who doesn’t return due to his dad dying in a stake-out.
* MissionImpossibleCableDrop: The selected method of a mercenary team coming after Inspector Huang and Cola while both men are on the top floor of Huang’s home. Huang manage to hear them approaching, and gun down the first mercenary who then falls off a tall balcony. Cue shootout.
* OnceMoreWithClarity: The opening scene makes it look like superintendent Huang betrays, and shoots Senior Inspector "Seven-Up" Chan and Corporal Tam, but later on another flashback with Huang explaining the details reveals that Seven-Up betrays and shoots Tam, and Huang is forced to shoot Seven-Up in self-defense.
* PineappleSurprise:
** Casper’s attempt to arrest a suspect end with both of them struggling on the floor with each other, until said suspect, whom his pockets Casper is searching through, suddenly whips out a grenade. And [[OhCrap Casper happens to be holding its pin]].
** The grenade trick turns out to be a ChekhovsGun in the ending, [[spoiler: when Casper manage to arrest Boss Wong… by shoving a grenade between Wong’s thighs, sans pin. And tells him to better stay in that position until the police arrives to arrest him, or simply let himself be blown up]].
* PlayingPossum: Attempted by Cyclops, who gets shot by Inspector Huang but survives thanks to his Kevlar vest, and pretends to be dead behind a couch while trying to lure Huang closer to him. Luckily Cola is on a tall balcony and shouts a quick warning to Huang.
* PunnyName: Inspector "Seven-Up" Chan and his son, Inspector "Cola" Chan.
* TheQuietOne: Inspector Bao, who doesn’t like to talk. Inspector Casper, sharing an UncomfortableElevatorMoment, comments that Bao barely said eight words in a year while trying to strike up a conversation with him.
--> '''Casper''': "Well, you don't like to talk so much, so what if someone pisses you off? Huh? What if someone pisses you off?"
--> '''Bao''': ([[FlippingTheBird sticks out his middle finger]])
--> '''Casper''': "Oh come on…"
* SlashedThroat: Joyce, revealing herself to be TheMole, does this to one of the officers which was supposed to be guarding her.
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Ray in one scene is shown playing chess, reverse and Chinese chess ''blindfolded'', where he has a minion move the pieces for him while he merely names the squares for his pieces to move (e.g. Pawn to H4). And he wins.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: There is only one female officer on Inspector Huang’s team, Debbie. [[spoiler: Unlike most examples though, Debbie doesn’t outlive her male co-workers]].
* StayingWithFriends: When Cola had to share an apartment with Wong and Wong’s paralyzed vegetable father.
* WalkingSwimsuitScene: Madam Wong in one scene near her pool, just when the police are searching her husband’s mansion. Casper managed to had an eyeful of MaleGaze when asking her questions while she’s still in her leopard-spotted bikini.
!!''Colour of the Loyalty'' contains examples of:
* BloodierAndGoried: Compared to ''Colour of the Truth''. Plenty of bloody squibs are used to depict death scenes, and the onscreen fatalities are actually more graphic this time.
* BodyguardingABadass: Fat, the main character, is assigned to become Boss Long’s bodyguard, nevermind Long being the leader of a triad syndicate is a badass himself.
* CoatCape: Boss Long is shown wearing his coat like this in a few scenes, including the poster.
* DropTheHammer: A group of armed men tries attacking Fat while he’s in his apartment with his girlfriend, using hammers to smash the locks of his door and then attacking Fat using the same weapon.
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Plenty of characters from both sides smokes in the sequel, which is averted in the previous film. Boss Long himself is a CigarChomper who prefers thick Havana cigars.
* MalevolentMaskedMen: The henchmen in this movie are frequently seen wearing ski masks when attacking Fat or other characters.
* ShoutOut: The character, Fat, gets called "Creator/ChowYunFat" by Boss Long during a dinner scene.
!!''Colour of the Game'' contains examples of:
* GunsAkimbo
* HeroicBloodshed: This time with more shootouts and action scenes inspired by old-school John Woo.
* MexicanStandoff: With a pistol against a [[KukrisAreKool kukri]]…
* StuffBlowingUp: Plenty of explosions happens in this movie, may it be exploding cars, grenades, gas tanks... the last time something blows up in this movie, is the antique grenade from ''Colour of the Truth''.
* [[spoiler: WhiteShirtOfDeath]]
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''Colour of the Truth'' is a 2003 Hong Kong action thriller film directed by Wong Jing, and is the first installment of the "Colour" trilogy, a ThematicSeries of films featuring relationships between criminal organizations and the police officers posing as informants in the syndicate. Often billed as an [[Film/TheInfernalAffairsTrilogy Infernal Affairs]] clone, the series do have plenty of action, twists, and suspense to keep audiences guessing and entertained.
In ''Colour of the Truth'', Hong Kong cop "Cola" Chan is recently promoted to Chief Investigator, and ends up being partnered with Inspector Huang (Creator/AnthonyWong), whom was a suspect in killing Cola's father years ago in a stake-out, but was released due to lack of evidence. Before Cola can discover the truth, a drug deal gone wrong ends up having Cola and Huang being the targets of assassins led by deadly mercenary Cyclops, who may have something to do with Cola's past.
The 2005 sequel, ''Colour of the Loyalty'', comes with a set of new characters, although the story is told in the same tone and in similar mold. This time there is a new supercop named Fat, who ends up being assigned as the bodyguard of triad boss, Long while posing as in informant.
Twelve years later in 2017, comes the third and last (according to series producer Wong Jing) installment, ''Colour of the Game'', starring Creator/SimonYam as a mobster about to retire. But before he can quit the mob, he have to flesh out an informant among his team of most trusted bodyguards. Has significantly more action, including John Woo-style shootouts and explosions, but offers less on plot.
[[caption-width-right:350:Left to right: ''Truth'', ''Loyalty'', ''Game'']]
''Colour of the Truth'' is a 2003 Hong Kong action thriller film directed by Wong Jing, and is the first installment of the "Colour" trilogy, a ThematicSeries of films featuring relationships between criminal organizations and the police officers posing as informants in the syndicate. Often billed as an [[Film/TheInfernalAffairsTrilogy Infernal Affairs]] clone, the series do have plenty of action, twists, and suspense to keep audiences guessing and entertained.
In ''Colour of the Truth'', Hong Kong cop "Cola" Chan is recently promoted to Chief Investigator, and ends up being partnered with Inspector Huang (Creator/AnthonyWong), whom was a suspect in killing Cola's father years ago in a stake-out, but was released due to lack of evidence. Before Cola can discover the truth, a drug deal gone wrong ends up having Cola and Huang being the targets of assassins led by deadly mercenary Cyclops, who may have something to do with Cola's past.
The 2005 sequel, ''Colour of the Loyalty'', comes with a set of new characters, although the story is told in the same tone and in similar mold. This time there is a new supercop named Fat, who ends up being assigned as the bodyguard of triad boss, Long while posing as in informant.
Twelve years later in 2017, comes the third and last (according to series producer Wong Jing) installment, ''Colour of the Game'', starring Creator/SimonYam as a mobster about to retire. But before he can quit the mob, he have to flesh out an informant among his team of most trusted bodyguards. Has significantly more action, including John Woo-style shootouts and explosions, but offers less on plot.
