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''Flash Point'' is a 2007 MartialArtsMovie directed by Wilson Yip and starring Creator/DonnieYen. This is the second collaboration between Wilson Yip and Donnie Yen after ''Film/ShaPoLang''.

Hong Kong, 1997. A rather violence-crazy police inspector named Ma (Donnie Yen) pursues the arrest of a fraternal trio of Hong Kong gangsters led by the ruthless Tony (Collin Chou), counting on his beleaguered police partner and current mole Wilson (Louis Koo). The three brothers fail to murder a fellow gang boss, which culminates in one of them in jail, but Wilson's cover is discovered and he is blackmailed not to testify against them under the threat of killing his pregnant girlfriend. When the other witnesses are killed and Wilson is captured while trying to find her, it is up to Ma to free them and bring down the gangsters for good.

The film was a box office hit and won the Best Action Choreography awards at the 27th Hong Kong Film Awards and 2008 Golden Horse Film Awards thanks to Yen's fight choreography, which included UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts and quite a few other styles in the mix.

Do not confuse with the animated film ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueTheFlashpointParadox'', sometimes called simply "Flashpoint".

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!!The film provides the following tropes:

* ActionHero: Ma.
* AntiHero: From the start, Ma makes clear that he is in the police to kick asses of bad people and not so much to serve and protect.
* ArrestedForHeroism: How Ma sees his reprimand from the police officers at the beginning of the film. In his own words, during the time he has been there he could have been instead beating down evildoers.
* AxCrazy: Tony becomes one after getting his brothers killed, but unfortunately for him, Ma himself is not much less of another.
* BigBad: Tony.
* BloodKnight: Ma ''really'' loves to fight.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Tony's spinning kicks are somehow strong enough to break concrete columns nonchalantly, though it comes admittedly to no surprise when you see his general body resilience.
* DeathGlare: Courtesy of Ma.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: At the very beginning of the film, Ma gets known by rushing into a combat sports gym and tackling somebody to the ground.
* ExtremeMeleeRevenge: One of the gangsters takes a young girl hostage to stave off Ma, then throws her aside hard enough that she has BloodFromTheMouth as he flees. Once Ma runs him down, what follows [[CurbStompBattle can only very generously be called a "fight"]], and ends with an extended take of the camera just barely covering the gangster's fallen form as Ma just Keeps. On. Punching.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Our friend Ma could be a contender for the king of the trope. If you are a delinquent, you ''will'' suffer.
* HardWorkHardlyWorks: A stylistic variation, played straight but averted at the end. During the final duel, the sheer variety of Ma's hand-to-hand moveset is astonishing, including but not limited to kung fu, Western boxing, UsefulNotes/{{Judo}}, UsefulNotes/{{Taekwondo}}, UsefulNotes/MuayThai and UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts, but Tony uses just classic kung fu and yet he proves to be quite of a match, to the extent Ma has to to spend every drop of sweat in his body and pull out every trick up his sleeve to beat him.
* HeroesFightBarehanded: Justified, as the characters only resort to hand-to-hand when guns are dropped.
* HotBlooded: Ma is impulsive, energetic and loves fighting, perhaps a bit too much.
* IKnowKarate: Interestingly averted, as nobody talks about martial arts or similar things in the entire film. Amusingly enough, Ma seems to know at least kung fu, boxing, judo, UsefulNotes/BrazilianJiuJitsu and muay thai, so he would have a hard time listing them all quickly to warn an adversary.
* InvulnerableKnuckles: Mostly averted, as Ma's knuckles are shown bleeding and swollen after beating the baddie to death, but still present, as after the kind of beatdown Ma gives the baddie, a man with bare, non-compressed fists would have very probably broken at least some minor hand bones.
* KungShui: A minor example, but Tony breaks some furniture (and architecture) with his legs during his fight.
* LeParkour: Ma shows some while chasing a mook.
* MadeOfIron: The punishment both Ma and Tony take during their final duel is ''massive'', yet they actually never sell it the amount they should aside from some grimacing and blood spits. Ma gets powerbombed full force against a concrete floor and later onto his neck against a steel rail; Tony takes a free fall from a first floor, an ''ippon seoi nage'' onto the ground and a German suplex against some concrete blocks; and generally, but particularly towards the end, both of them receive tons of head strikes and haymakers. All of this without even looking groggy.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Tony ends at the receiving end of a heel hook and does scream in pain when his leg is broken, but the injury itself just makes him limp a bit and ditch his spinning kicks afterwards, when in real life it would be crippling, possibly forever, and he should be screaming his lungs off and tending his broken leg.
* TheMole: Wilson in the brothers's band.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Oh boy. Ma loves to dispense some of those, and actually kills a guy by intensive ground and pound.
* LightningBruiser: Both Ma and Tony.
* RatedMForManly
* SiblingTeam: Archer, Tony and Tiger.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: There are not enough punches for you if you have got Ma angry on you.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: [[{{SubvertedTrope}} He does in the final scene.]] It's just that he ran out of bullets.
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Though not as overtly as other martial arts moves, Ma performs hurricanranas and suplexes on Tony.
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''Flash Point'' is a 2007 MartialArtsMovie directed by Wilson Yip and starring Creator/DonnieYen. This is the second collaboration between Wilson Yip and Donnie Yen after ''Film/ShaPoLang''.

Hong Kong, 1997. A rather violence-crazy police inspector named Ma (Donnie Yen) pursues the arrest of a fraternal trio of Hong Kong gangsters led by the ruthless Tony (Collin Chou), counting on his beleaguered police partner and current mole Wilson (Louis Koo). The three brothers fail to murder a fellow gang boss, which culminates in one of them in jail, but Wilson's cover is discovered and he is blackmailed not to testify against them under the threat of killing his pregnant girlfriend. When the other witnesses are killed and Wilson is captured while trying to find her, it is up to Ma to free them and bring down the gangsters for good.

The film was a box office hit and won the Best Action Choreography awards at the 27th Hong Kong Film Awards and 2008 Golden Horse Film Awards thanks to Yen's fight choreography, which included UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts and quite a few other styles in the mix.

Do not confuse with the animated film ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueTheFlashpointParadox'', sometimes called simply "Flashpoint".

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!!The film provides the following tropes:

* ActionHero: Ma.
* AntiHero: From the start, Ma makes clear that he is in the police to kick asses of bad people and not so much to serve and protect.
* ArrestedForHeroism: How Ma sees his reprimand from the police officers at the beginning of the film. In his own words, during the time he has been there he could have been instead beating down evildoers.
* AxCrazy: Tony becomes one after getting his brothers killed, but unfortunately for him, Ma himself is not much less of another.
* BigBad: Tony.
* BloodKnight: Ma ''really'' loves to fight.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Tony's spinning kicks are somehow strong enough to break concrete columns nonchalantly, though it comes admittedly to no surprise when you see his general body resilience.
* DeathGlare: Courtesy of Ma.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: At the very beginning of the film, Ma gets known by rushing into a combat sports gym and tackling somebody to the ground.
* ExtremeMeleeRevenge: One of the gangsters takes a young girl hostage to stave off Ma, then throws her aside hard enough that she has BloodFromTheMouth as he flees. Once Ma runs him down, what follows [[CurbStompBattle can only very generously be called a "fight"]], and ends with an extended take of the camera just barely covering the gangster's fallen form as Ma just Keeps. On. Punching.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Our friend Ma could be a contender for the king of the trope. If you are a delinquent, you ''will'' suffer.
* HardWorkHardlyWorks: A stylistic variation, played straight but averted at the end. During the final duel, the sheer variety of Ma's hand-to-hand moveset is astonishing, including but not limited to kung fu, Western boxing, UsefulNotes/{{Judo}}, UsefulNotes/{{Taekwondo}}, UsefulNotes/MuayThai and UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts, but Tony uses just classic kung fu and yet he proves to be quite of a match, to the extent Ma has to to spend every drop of sweat in his body and pull out every trick up his sleeve to beat him.
* HeroesFightBarehanded: Justified, as the characters only resort to hand-to-hand when guns are dropped.
* HotBlooded: Ma is impulsive, energetic and loves fighting, perhaps a bit too much.
* IKnowKarate: Interestingly averted, as nobody talks about martial arts or similar things in the entire film. Amusingly enough, Ma seems to know at least kung fu, boxing, judo, UsefulNotes/BrazilianJiuJitsu and muay thai, so he would have a hard time listing them all quickly to warn an adversary.
* InvulnerableKnuckles: Mostly averted, as Ma's knuckles are shown bleeding and swollen after beating the baddie to death, but still present, as after the kind of beatdown Ma gives the baddie, a man with bare, non-compressed fists would have very probably broken at least some minor hand bones.
* KungShui: A minor example, but Tony breaks some furniture (and architecture) with his legs during his fight.
* LeParkour: Ma shows some while chasing a mook.
* MadeOfIron: The punishment both Ma and Tony take during their final duel is ''massive'', yet they actually never sell it the amount they should aside from some grimacing and blood spits. Ma gets powerbombed full force against a concrete floor and later onto his neck against a steel rail; Tony takes a free fall from a first floor, an ''ippon seoi nage'' onto the ground and a German suplex against some concrete blocks; and generally, but particularly towards the end, both of them receive tons of head strikes and haymakers. All of this without even looking groggy.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Tony ends at the receiving end of a heel hook and does scream in pain when his leg is broken, but the injury itself just makes him limp a bit and ditch his spinning kicks afterwards, when in real life it would be crippling, possibly forever, and he should be screaming his lungs off and tending his broken leg.
* TheMole: Wilson in the brothers's band.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Oh boy. Ma loves to dispense some of those, and actually kills a guy by intensive ground and pound.
* LightningBruiser: Both Ma and Tony.
* RatedMForManly
* SiblingTeam: Archer, Tony and Tiger.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: There are not enough punches for you if you have got Ma angry on you.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: [[{{SubvertedTrope}} He does in the final scene.]] It's just that he ran out of bullets.
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Though not as overtly as other martial arts moves, Ma performs hurricanranas and suplexes on Tony.
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* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Though not as overtly as other martial arts moves, Ma performs hurricanranas and suplexes on Tony.

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* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Though not as overtly as other martial arts moves, Ma performs hurricanranas and suplexes on Tony.Tony.
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* IKnowKarate: Interestingly averted, as nobody talks about martial arts or similar things in the entire film. Amusingly enough, Ma seems to know at least kung fu, boxing, judo, Brazilian jiu-jitsu and muay thai, so he would have a hard time listing them all quickly to warn an adversary.

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* IKnowKarate: Interestingly averted, as nobody talks about martial arts or similar things in the entire film. Amusingly enough, Ma seems to know at least kung fu, boxing, judo, Brazilian jiu-jitsu UsefulNotes/BrazilianJiuJitsu and muay thai, so he would have a hard time listing them all quickly to warn an adversary.
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''Flash Point'' is a is a 2007 MartialArtsMovie directed by Wilson Yip and starring Creator/DonnieYen. This is the second collaboration between Wilson Yip and Donnie Yen after ''Film/ShaPoLang''.

Hong Kong, 1997. A somewhat violence-crazy police inspector named Ma (Donnie Yen) pursues the arrest of a fraternal trio of Hong Kong gangsters led by the ruthless Tony (Collin Chou), counting on his beleaguered police partner Wilson (Louis Koo), who acts as a mole. The three brothers fail to murder a fellow gang boss, which culminates in one of them in jail, but Wilson's cover is discovered and he is blackmailed to not to testify against them under the threat of killing his pregnant girlfriend. When the other witnesses are killed and Wilson is captured while trying to find her, it is up to Ma to free them and bring down the gangsters for good.

The film was a box office hit and won the Best Action Choreography awards at the 27th Hong Kong Film Awards and 2008 Golden Horse Film Awards, thanks to Yen's fight choreography which included some UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts in the mix.

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''Flash Point'' is a is a 2007 MartialArtsMovie directed by Wilson Yip and starring Creator/DonnieYen. This is the second collaboration between Wilson Yip and Donnie Yen after ''Film/ShaPoLang''.

Hong Kong, 1997. A somewhat rather violence-crazy police inspector named Ma (Donnie Yen) pursues the arrest of a fraternal trio of Hong Kong gangsters led by the ruthless Tony (Collin Chou), counting on his beleaguered police partner and current mole Wilson (Louis Koo), who acts as a mole. Koo). The three brothers fail to murder a fellow gang boss, which culminates in one of them in jail, but Wilson's cover is discovered and he is blackmailed to not to testify against them under the threat of killing his pregnant girlfriend. When the other witnesses are killed and Wilson is captured while trying to find her, it is up to Ma to free them and bring down the gangsters for good.

The film was a box office hit and won the Best Action Choreography awards at the 27th Hong Kong Film Awards and 2008 Golden Horse Film Awards, Awards thanks to Yen's fight choreography choreography, which included some UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts and quite a few other styles in the mix.



* AntiHero: From the starting, Ma makes clear that he is in the police to kick the asses of bad people and not so much to serve and protect.
* ArrestedForHeroism: How Ma sees his reprimand from the police officers the at the beginning of the film. In his own words, during the time he has been there he could have been instead beating down evildoers.

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* AntiHero: From the starting, start, Ma makes clear that he is in the police to kick the asses of bad people and not so much to serve and protect.
* ArrestedForHeroism: How Ma sees his reprimand from the police officers the at the beginning of the film. In his own words, during the time he has been there he could have been instead beating down evildoers.



* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Tony’s spinning kicks are somehow strong enough to break concrete columns nonchalantly, though once you have seen his sheer body resilience, it comes as no surprise.

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* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Tony’s Tony's spinning kicks are somehow strong enough to break concrete columns nonchalantly, though once you have seen his sheer body resilience, it comes as admittedly to no surprise.surprise when you see his general body resilience.



* GoodIsNotSoft: Our friend Ma could be a contender for the king of the trope. If you are a delinquent, you ''will'' be beaten down.
* HardWorkHardlyWorks: A stylistic variation, played straight and averted at the end. During the final duel, the sheer variety of Ma's hand-to-hand offensive is astonishing, ranging from striking to grappling and MMA techniques, but Tony uses just classic kung fu and yet he proves to be quite of a match, to the extent Ma has to to spend every drop of sweat in his body and pull out every trick up his sleeve to beat him.

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* GoodIsNotSoft: Our friend Ma could be a contender for the king of the trope. If you are a delinquent, you ''will'' be beaten down.
suffer.
* HardWorkHardlyWorks: A stylistic variation, played straight and but averted at the end. During the final duel, the sheer variety of Ma's hand-to-hand offensive moveset is astonishing, ranging from striking including but not limited to grappling kung fu, Western boxing, UsefulNotes/{{Judo}}, UsefulNotes/{{Taekwondo}}, UsefulNotes/MuayThai and MMA techniques, UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts, but Tony uses just classic kung fu and yet he proves to be quite of a match, to the extent Ma has to to spend every drop of sweat in his body and pull out every trick up his sleeve to beat him.



* HotBlooded: Ma is impulsive, energetic and loves fighting a bit too much.

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* HotBlooded: Ma is impulsive, energetic and loves fighting fighting, perhaps a bit too much.



* InvulnerableKnuckles: Averted, as Ma's knuckles are shown bleeding and swollen after beating the baddie to death.

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* InvulnerableKnuckles: Averted, Mostly averted, as Ma's knuckles are shown bleeding and swollen after beating the baddie to death.death, but still present, as after the kind of beatdown Ma gives the baddie, a man with bare, non-compressed fists would have very probably broken at least some minor hand bones.



* MadeOfIron: The punishment both Ma and Tony take during their final duel is ''massive'', yet they actually never sell it the amount they should, aside from some grimacing and blood spits. Ma gets powerbombed full force against a concrete floor and later onto his neck against a steel rail; Tony takes a free fall from a first floor, an ''ippon seoi nage'' onto the ground and a German suplex against some concrete blocks; and in general, but specially at the end, both of them receive tons of strikes and haymakers. All of this without even looking groggy.

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* MadeOfIron: The punishment both Ma and Tony take during their final duel is ''massive'', yet they actually never sell it the amount they should, should aside from some grimacing and blood spits. Ma gets powerbombed full force against a concrete floor and later onto his neck against a steel rail; Tony takes a free fall from a first floor, an ''ippon seoi nage'' onto the ground and a German suplex against some concrete blocks; and in general, generally, but specially at particularly towards the end, both of them receive tons of head strikes and haymakers. All of this without even looking groggy.



* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Oh boy. Ma loves to dispense some of those, and he actually kills a guy by intensive ground and pound.

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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Oh boy. Ma loves to dispense some of those, and he actually kills a guy by intensive ground and pound.



* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Though not overtly, Ma performs hurricanranas and suplexes on Tony.

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* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Though not overtly, as overtly as other martial arts moves, Ma performs hurricanranas and suplexes on Tony.
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* ExtremeMeleeRevenge: One of the gangsters takes a young girl hostage to stave off Ma, then throws her aside hard enough that she has BloodFromTheMouth. Once Ma runs him down, what follows [[CurbStompBattle can only very generously be called a "fight"]], and ends with an extended take of the camera just barely covering the gangster's fallen form as Ma just Keeps. On. Punching.

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* ExtremeMeleeRevenge: One of the gangsters takes a young girl hostage to stave off Ma, then throws her aside hard enough that she has BloodFromTheMouth.BloodFromTheMouth as he flees. Once Ma runs him down, what follows [[CurbStompBattle can only very generously be called a "fight"]], and ends with an extended take of the camera just barely covering the gangster's fallen form as Ma just Keeps. On. Punching.
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* ExtremeMeleeRevenge: One of the gangsters takes a young girl hostage to stave off Ma, then throws her aside hard enough that she has BloodFromTheMouth. Once Ma runs him down, what follows [[CurbStompBattle can only very generously be called a "fight"]], and ends with an extended take of the camera just barely covering the gangster's fallen form as Ma just Keeps. On. Punching.
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'''Flash Point''' is a is a 2007 MartialArtsMovie directed by Wilson Yip and starring Creator/DonnieYen. This is the second collaboration between Wilson Yip and Donnie Yen after ''Film/ShaPoLang''.

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'''Flash Point''' ''Flash Point'' is a is a 2007 MartialArtsMovie directed by Wilson Yip and starring Creator/DonnieYen. This is the second collaboration between Wilson Yip and Donnie Yen after ''Film/ShaPoLang''.
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* {{Badass}}: Ma and Tony.

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* ArrestedForHeroism: How Ma sees his reprimand from the police officers the at the beginning of the film. In his words, during the time he has been there he could have been instead beating down evildoers.

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* ArrestedForHeroism: How Ma sees his reprimand from the police officers the at the beginning of the film. In his own words, during the time he has been there he could have been instead beating down evildoers.



* EstablishingCharacterMoment: At the very beginning of the film, Ma gets known by rushing into a combat sports gym and tackling somebody to the ground.



* HardWorkHardlyWorks: A stylistic variation, played straight and averted at the end. During the final duel, the sheer variety of Ma's martial arts offensive is astonishing, ranging from striking to grappling and MMA tricks, but Tony uses just classic kung fu and yet he proves to be quite of a match, to the extent Ma has to to spend every drop of sweat in his body and pull out every trick up his sleeve to finally beat him.

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* HardWorkHardlyWorks: A stylistic variation, played straight and averted at the end. During the final duel, the sheer variety of Ma's martial arts hand-to-hand offensive is astonishing, ranging from striking to grappling and MMA tricks, techniques, but Tony uses just classic kung fu and yet he proves to be quite of a match, to the extent Ma has to to spend every drop of sweat in his body and pull out every trick up his sleeve to finally beat him.



* MadeOfIron: The punishment both Ma and Tony take during their final duel is ''massive'', yet they actually never sell it the amount they should, aside from some grimacing and blood spits. Ma gets powerbombed full force against a concrete floor and later onto his neck against a steel rail; Tony takes a free fall, an ''ippon seoi nage'' onto the ground and a German suplex against some concrete blocks; and, at the end, both of them receive tons of strikes and damage. All without even looking groggy.

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* MadeOfIron: The punishment both Ma and Tony take during their final duel is ''massive'', yet they actually never sell it the amount they should, aside from some grimacing and blood spits. Ma gets powerbombed full force against a concrete floor and later onto his neck against a steel rail; Tony takes a free fall, fall from a first floor, an ''ippon seoi nage'' onto the ground and a German suplex against some concrete blocks; and, and in general, but specially at the end, both of them receive tons of strikes and damage. haymakers. All of this without even looking groggy.
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Hong Kong, 1997. A somewhat violence-crazy police inspector named Ma (Donnie Yen) pursues the arrest of a fraternal trio of Hong Kong gangsters led by the ruthless Tony(Collin Chou), counting on his beleaguered police partner Wilson (Louis Koo), who acts as a mole. The three brothers fail to murder a fellow gang boss, which culminates in one of them in jail, but Wilson's cover is discovered and he is blackmailed to not to testify against them under the threat of killing his pregnant girlfriend. When the other witnesses are killed and Wilson is captured while trying to find her, it is up to Ma to free them and bring down the gangsters for good.

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Hong Kong, 1997. A somewhat violence-crazy police inspector named Ma (Donnie Yen) pursues the arrest of a fraternal trio of Hong Kong gangsters led by the ruthless Tony(Collin Tony (Collin Chou), counting on his beleaguered police partner Wilson (Louis Koo), who acts as a mole. The three brothers fail to murder a fellow gang boss, which culminates in one of them in jail, but Wilson's cover is discovered and he is blackmailed to not to testify against them under the threat of killing his pregnant girlfriend. When the other witnesses are killed and Wilson is captured while trying to find her, it is up to Ma to free them and bring down the gangsters for good.
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The main baddie played by Collin Chou is called Tony. Not Tiger.


Hong Kong, 1997. A somewhat violence-crazy police inspector named Ma (Donnie Yen) pursues the arrest of a fraternal trio of Hong Kong gangsters led by the ruthless Tiger (Collin Chou), counting on his beleaguered police partner Wilson (Louis Koo), who acts as a mole. The three brothers fail to murder a fellow gang boss, which culminates in one of them in jail, but Wilson's cover is discovered and he is blackmailed to not to testify against them under the threat of killing his pregnant girlfriend. When the other witnesses are killed and Wilson is captured while trying to find her, it is up to Ma to free them and bring down the gangsters for good.

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Hong Kong, 1997. A somewhat violence-crazy police inspector named Ma (Donnie Yen) pursues the arrest of a fraternal trio of Hong Kong gangsters led by the ruthless Tiger (Collin Tony(Collin Chou), counting on his beleaguered police partner Wilson (Louis Koo), who acts as a mole. The three brothers fail to murder a fellow gang boss, which culminates in one of them in jail, but Wilson's cover is discovered and he is blackmailed to not to testify against them under the threat of killing his pregnant girlfriend. When the other witnesses are killed and Wilson is captured while trying to find her, it is up to Ma to free them and bring down the gangsters for good.



* AxCrazy: Tiger becomes one after getting his brothers killed, but unfortunately for him, Ma himself is not much less of another.
* {{Badass}}: Ma and Tiger.
* BigBad: Tiger.

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* AxCrazy: Tiger Tony becomes one after getting his brothers killed, but unfortunately for him, Ma himself is not much less of another.
* {{Badass}}: Ma and Tiger.
Tony.
* BigBad: Tiger.Tony.



* HardWorkHardlyWorks: A stylistic variation, played straight and averted at the end. During the final duel, the sheer variety of Ma's martial arts offensive is astonishing, ranging from striking to grappling and MMA tricks, but Tiger uses just classic kung fu and yet he proves to be quite of a match, to the extent Ma has to to spend every drop of sweat in his body and pull out every trick up his sleeve to finally beat him.

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* HardWorkHardlyWorks: A stylistic variation, played straight and averted at the end. During the final duel, the sheer variety of Ma's martial arts offensive is astonishing, ranging from striking to grappling and MMA tricks, but Tiger Tony uses just classic kung fu and yet he proves to be quite of a match, to the extent Ma has to to spend every drop of sweat in his body and pull out every trick up his sleeve to finally beat him.



* LightningBruiser: Both Ma and Tiger.

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* LightningBruiser: Both Ma and Tiger.Tony.



* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Though not overtly, Ma performs hurricanranas and suplexes on Tiger.

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* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Though not overtly, Ma performs hurricanranas and suplexes on Tiger.Tony.
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* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: [[{{SubvertedTrope}} He does in the final scene.]] It's just that he ran out of bullets.
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Hong Kong, 1997. A somewhat violence-crazy police inspector named Ma (Donnie Yen) pursues the arrest of a fraternal trio of Hong Kong gangsters led by the ruthless Tiger (Collin Chou), counting on his beleaguered police partner Wilson (Louis Koo), who acts as a mole. The three brothers fail at the murder a fellow gang boss, which culminates in one of them in jail, but Wilson's cover is discovered and he is blackmailed to not to testify against them under the threat of killing his pregnant girlfriend. When the other witnesses are killed and Wilson is captured as well trying to find her, it is up to Ma the task to free them and bring down the gangsters for good.

The film was a box hit and won the Best Action Choreography awards at the 27th Hong Kong Film Awards and 2008 Golden Horse Film Awards, thanks to Yen's fight choreography which included some UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts along.

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Hong Kong, 1997. A somewhat violence-crazy police inspector named Ma (Donnie Yen) pursues the arrest of a fraternal trio of Hong Kong gangsters led by the ruthless Tiger (Collin Chou), counting on his beleaguered police partner Wilson (Louis Koo), who acts as a mole. The three brothers fail at the to murder a fellow gang boss, which culminates in one of them in jail, but Wilson's cover is discovered and he is blackmailed to not to testify against them under the threat of killing his pregnant girlfriend. When the other witnesses are killed and Wilson is captured as well while trying to find her, it is up to Ma the task to free them and bring down the gangsters for good.

The film was a box office hit and won the Best Action Choreography awards at the 27th Hong Kong Film Awards and 2008 Golden Horse Film Awards, thanks to Yen's fight choreography which included some UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts along.
in the mix.



* AntiHero: From the starting, Ma makes clear that he is in the police to kick bad people's asses and not so much to serve and protect.

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* AntiHero: From the starting, Ma makes clear that he is in the police to kick bad people's the asses of bad people and not so much to serve and protect.



* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Tony’s spinning kicks are somehow strong enough to break concrete columns nonchalantly, though once seen its sheer body resilience, it comes to no surprise.

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* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Tony’s spinning kicks are somehow strong enough to break concrete columns nonchalantly, though once you have seen its his sheer body resilience, it comes to as no surprise.



* HardWorkHardlyWorks: A stylistic variation, played straight and averted at the end. During the final duel, the sheer variety of Ma's martial arts offensive is astonishing, ranging from striking to grappling and MMA tricks, but Tiger uses just your ol'd classic kung fu and yet he proves to be quite of a match, to the extent Ma has to to spend every drop of sweat in his body and try everything in his sleeve to finally beat him.

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* HardWorkHardlyWorks: A stylistic variation, played straight and averted at the end. During the final duel, the sheer variety of Ma's martial arts offensive is astonishing, ranging from striking to grappling and MMA tricks, but Tiger uses just your ol'd classic kung fu and yet he proves to be quite of a match, to the extent Ma has to to spend every drop of sweat in his body and try everything in pull out every trick up his sleeve to finally beat him.



* IKnowKarate: Interestingly averted, as nobody talks about martial arts or similar things in the entire film. Amusingly enough, Ma seems to know at least kung fu, boxing, judo, Brazilian jiu-jitsu and muay thai, so he would have a hard time listing them all quickly to warn and adversary.

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* IKnowKarate: Interestingly averted, as nobody talks about martial arts or similar things in the entire film. Amusingly enough, Ma seems to know at least kung fu, boxing, judo, Brazilian jiu-jitsu and muay thai, so he would have a hard time listing them all quickly to warn and an adversary.



* MadeOfIron: The punishment both Ma and Tony take during their final duel is ''massive'', yet they actually never sell it the amount they should, aside from some grimacing and blood spits. Ma gets powerbombed full force against a concrete floor and later onto his neck against a steel rail; Tony takes a free fall, an ippon seoi nage onto the ground and a German suplex against some concrete blocks; and, at the end, both of them receive tons of strikes and damage. All without merely looking groggy.

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* MadeOfIron: The punishment both Ma and Tony take during their final duel is ''massive'', yet they actually never sell it the amount they should, aside from some grimacing and blood spits. Ma gets powerbombed full force against a concrete floor and later onto his neck against a steel rail; Tony takes a free fall, an ippon ''ippon seoi nage nage'' onto the ground and a German suplex against some concrete blocks; and, at the end, both of them receive tons of strikes and damage. All without merely even looking groggy.

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* AntiHero: From the starting, Ma makes clear that he is with the police to kick bad people's asses and not to serve and protect.

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* AntiHero: From the starting, Ma makes clear that he is with in the police to kick bad people's asses and not so much to serve and protect.



* GoodIsNotSoft: Our friend Ma could be a contender for the king of the trope.

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* GoodIsNotSoft: Our friend Ma could be a contender for the king of the trope. If you are a delinquent, you ''will'' be beaten down.



* IKnowKarate: Interestingly averted, as nobody talks about martial arts or similar things in the entire film. Amusingly enough, Ma seems to know at least kung fu, boxing, judo, Brazilian jiu-jitsu and muay thai, so he would have a hard time listing them all quickly to warn and adversary.



* MadeOfIron: The punishment both Ma and Tony take during his final duel is ''massive'', yet they actually never sell it the amount they should, aside from some grimacing and blood spits. Ma gets powerbombed full force against a concrete floor and later onto his neck against a steel rail; Tony takes a free fall, an ippon seoi nage onto the ground and a German suplex against some concrete blocks; and both of them receive tons of strikes and damage, all of it without merely looking groggy.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Played with. Tony ends at the receiving end of a heel hook and does scream in pain when his leg is broken, but the injury itself just makes him limp a bit afterwards, when in real life it would be crippling, possibly forever.

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* LeParkour: Ma shows some while chasing a mook.
* MadeOfIron: The punishment both Ma and Tony take during his their final duel is ''massive'', yet they actually never sell it the amount they should, aside from some grimacing and blood spits. Ma gets powerbombed full force against a concrete floor and later onto his neck against a steel rail; Tony takes a free fall, an ippon seoi nage onto the ground and a German suplex against some concrete blocks; and and, at the end, both of them receive tons of strikes and damage, all of it damage. All without merely looking groggy.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Played with. Tony ends at the receiving end of a heel hook and does scream in pain when his leg is broken, but the injury itself just makes him limp a bit and ditch his spinning kicks afterwards, when in real life it would be crippling, possibly forever.forever, and he should be screaming his lungs off and tending his broken leg.
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* GoodIsNotNice: Our friend Ma could be a contender for the king of the trope.

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* GoodIsNotNice: GoodIsNotSoft: Our friend Ma could be a contender for the king of the trope.



* MadeOfIron: The punishment both Ma and Tony take during his final duel is ''massive'', yet they actually never sell it the amount they should, aside from some grimacing and blood spits. Ma gets powerbombed full force against a concrete floor and later onto his neck against a steel rail, Tony takes a free fall, an ippon seoi nage onto the ground and a German suplex against some concrete blocks, and both of them receive tons of strikes and damage without merely looking groggy.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Played with. Tony ends at the receiving end of a heel hook and does scream in pain, but the injury itself (which in real life would be crippling, possibly forever) just makes him limp afterwards.

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* MadeOfIron: The punishment both Ma and Tony take during his final duel is ''massive'', yet they actually never sell it the amount they should, aside from some grimacing and blood spits. Ma gets powerbombed full force against a concrete floor and later onto his neck against a steel rail, rail; Tony takes a free fall, an ippon seoi nage onto the ground and a German suplex against some concrete blocks, blocks; and both of them receive tons of strikes and damage damage, all of it without merely looking groggy.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Played with. Tony ends at the receiving end of a heel hook and does scream in pain, pain when his leg is broken, but the injury itself (which just makes him limp a bit afterwards, when in real life it would be crippling, possibly forever) just makes him limp afterwards.forever.



* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Ma performs hurricanranas and suplexes on Tiger.

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* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Though not overtly, Ma performs hurricanranas and suplexes on Tiger.
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* ArrestedForHeroism: How Ma sees his reprimand from the police officers the at the beginning of the film. In his words, during all the time he has been there he could have been instead beating down evildoers.

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* ArrestedForHeroism: How Ma sees his reprimand from the police officers the at the beginning of the film. In his words, during all the time he has been there he could have been instead beating down evildoers.



* GoodIsNotNice: Our old friend Ma could be a contender for the king of the trope.
* HardWorkHardlyWorks: A stylistic variation, played straight and averted at the end. During the final duel, the sheer variety of Ma's martial arts offensive is astonishing, but Tiger only uses your ol' kung fu, and yet he proves to be quite of a match, to the extent Ma has to to spend every drop of sweat in his body in order to finally beat him.

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* GoodIsNotNice: Our old friend Ma could be a contender for the king of the trope.
* HardWorkHardlyWorks: A stylistic variation, played straight and averted at the end. During the final duel, the sheer variety of Ma's martial arts offensive is astonishing, ranging from striking to grappling and MMA tricks, but Tiger only uses just your ol' ol'd classic kung fu, fu and yet he proves to be quite of a match, to the extent Ma has to to spend every drop of sweat in his body and try everything in order his sleeve to finally beat him.



* MadeOfIron: The punishment both Ma and Tony take during his final duel is ''massive'', yet they actually never sell it the amount they should, aside from some grimacing and blood spits. Ma gets powerbombed full force against a concrete floor and later onto his neck against a steel rail, Tony takes a free fall, an ippon seoi nage onto the ground and a German suplex against some concrete blocks, and both of them receive tons of strikes and damage without dying or merely looking groggy.

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* MadeOfIron: The punishment both Ma and Tony take during his final duel is ''massive'', yet they actually never sell it the amount they should, aside from some grimacing and blood spits. Ma gets powerbombed full force against a concrete floor and later onto his neck against a steel rail, Tony takes a free fall, an ippon seoi nage onto the ground and a German suplex against some concrete blocks, and both of them receive tons of strikes and damage without dying or merely looking groggy.



* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: There are not enough punches if you have got Ma angry on you.

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* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: There are not enough punches for you if you have got Ma angry on you.
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'''Flash Point'' is a is a 2007 MartialArtsMovie directed by Wilson Yip and starring Creator/DonnieYen. This is the second collaboration between Wilson Yip and Donnie Yen after ''Film/ShaPoLang''.

Hong Kong, 1997. A somewhat violence crazy police inspector named Ma (Donnie Yen) pursues the arrest of a fraternal trio of Hong Kong gangsters led by the ruthless Tiger (Collin Chou), counting on his beleaguered police partner Wilson (Louis Koo), who acts as a mole. The three brothers fail at the murder a fellow gang boss, which culminates in one of them in jail, but Wilson's cover is discovered and he is blackmailed to not to testify against them under the threat of killing his pregnant girlfriend. When the other witnesses are killed and Wilson is captured as well trying to find her, it is up to Ma the task to free them and bring down the gangsters for good.

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'''Flash Point'' Point''' is a is a 2007 MartialArtsMovie directed by Wilson Yip and starring Creator/DonnieYen. This is the second collaboration between Wilson Yip and Donnie Yen after ''Film/ShaPoLang''.

Hong Kong, 1997. A somewhat violence crazy violence-crazy police inspector named Ma (Donnie Yen) pursues the arrest of a fraternal trio of Hong Kong gangsters led by the ruthless Tiger (Collin Chou), counting on his beleaguered police partner Wilson (Louis Koo), who acts as a mole. The three brothers fail at the murder a fellow gang boss, which culminates in one of them in jail, but Wilson's cover is discovered and he is blackmailed to not to testify against them under the threat of killing his pregnant girlfriend. When the other witnesses are killed and Wilson is captured as well trying to find her, it is up to Ma the task to free them and bring down the gangsters for good.
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* ThereIsNotKillLikeOverkill: There are not enough punches if you have got Ma angry on you.

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* ThereIsNotKillLikeOverkill: ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: There are not enough punches if you have got Ma angry on you.
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* ActioHero: Ma.

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* ActioHero: ActionHero: Ma.



* ThereIsNotKillLiveOverkill: There are not enough punches if you have got Ma angry on you.

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* ThereIsNotKillLiveOverkill: ThereIsNotKillLikeOverkill: There are not enough punches if you have got Ma angry on you.
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'''Flash Point'' is a is a 2007 MartialArtsMovie directed by Wilson Yip and starring Creator/DonnieYen. This is the second collaboration between Wilson Yip and Donnie Yen after ''Film/ShaPoLang''.

Hong Kong, 1997. A somewhat violence crazy police inspector named Ma (Donnie Yen) pursues the arrest of a fraternal trio of Hong Kong gangsters led by the ruthless Tiger (Collin Chou), counting on his beleaguered police partner Wilson (Louis Koo), who acts as a mole. The three brothers fail at the murder a fellow gang boss, which culminates in one of them in jail, but Wilson's cover is discovered and he is blackmailed to not to testify against them under the threat of killing his pregnant girlfriend. When the other witnesses are killed and Wilson is captured as well trying to find her, it is up to Ma the task to free them and bring down the gangsters for good.

The film was a box hit and won the Best Action Choreography awards at the 27th Hong Kong Film Awards and 2008 Golden Horse Film Awards, thanks to Yen's fight choreography which included some UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts along.

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!!The film provides the following tropes:

* ActioHero: Ma.
* AntiHero: From the starting, Ma makes clear that he is with the police to kick bad people's asses and not to serve and protect.
* ArrestedForHeroism: How Ma sees his reprimand from the police officers the at the beginning of the film. In his words, during all the time he has been there he could have been instead beating down evildoers.
* AxCrazy: Tiger becomes one after getting his brothers killed, but unfortunately for him, Ma himself is not much less of another.
* {{Badass}}: Ma and Tiger.
* BigBad: Tiger.
* BloodKnight: Ma ''really'' loves to fight.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Tony’s spinning kicks are somehow strong enough to break concrete columns nonchalantly, though once seen its sheer body resilience, it comes to no surprise.
* DeathGlare: Courtesy of Ma.
* GoodIsNotNice: Our old friend Ma could be a contender for the king of the trope.
* HardWorkHardlyWorks: A stylistic variation, played straight and averted at the end. During the final duel, the sheer variety of Ma's martial arts offensive is astonishing, but Tiger only uses your ol' kung fu, and yet he proves to be quite of a match, to the extent Ma has to to spend every drop of sweat in his body in order to finally beat him.
* HeroesFightBarehanded: Justified, as the characters only resort to hand-to-hand when guns are dropped.
* HotBlooded: Ma is impulsive, energetic and loves fighting a bit too much.
* InvulnerableKnuckles: Averted, as Ma's knuckles are shown bleeding and swollen after beating the baddie to death.
* KungShui: A minor example, but Tony breaks some furniture (and architecture) with his legs during his fight.
* MadeOfIron: The punishment both Ma and Tony take during his final duel is ''massive'', yet they actually never sell it the amount they should, aside from some grimacing and blood spits. Ma gets powerbombed full force against a concrete floor and later onto his neck against a steel rail, Tony takes a free fall, an ippon seoi nage onto the ground and a German suplex against some concrete blocks, and both of them receive tons of strikes and damage without dying or merely looking groggy.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Played with. Tony ends at the receiving end of a heel hook and does scream in pain, but the injury itself (which in real life would be crippling, possibly forever) just makes him limp afterwards.
* TheMole: Wilson in the brothers's band.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Oh boy. Ma loves to dispense some of those, and he actually kills a guy by intensive ground and pound.
* LightningBruiser: Both Ma and Tiger.
* RatedMForManly
* SiblingTeam: Archer, Tony and Tiger.
* ThereIsNotKillLiveOverkill: There are not enough punches if you have got Ma angry on you.
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Ma performs hurricanranas and suplexes on Tiger.

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