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''The Longest Night'', also known as ''Dark Flowers'', is a 1998 Hong Kong crime thriller directed by Creator/JohnnieTo, starring Creator/TonyLeung, who in a surprising twist, plays a corrupt cop who delights in abusing his power, who had to face a triad mobster (Lau Ching-wan) in a battle of wits.
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''The Longest Night'', also known as ''Dark Flowers'', is a 1998 Hong Kong crime thriller directed by Creator/JohnnieTo, starring Creator/TonyLeung, Creator/TonyLeungChiuWai, who in a surprising twist, plays a corrupt cop who delights in abusing his power, who had to face a triad mobster (Lau Ching-wan) in a battle of wits.
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* BadassMustache: Both Sam and Tony. Sam in particular overlaps into DastardlyWhiplash territory.
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* OddballIntheSeries: Evil Tony Leung? Really?
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''The Longest Night'', also known as ''Dark Flowers'', is a 1998 Hong Kong crime thriller directed by Creator/JohnnieTo, starring Creator/TonyLeung, who in a surprising twist, plays a corrupt cop who delights in abusing his power, who had to face a triad mobster (Lau Ching-wan) in a battle of wits.
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* OddballIntheSeries: Evil Tony Leung? Really?
** While Tony Leung did portray various antagonist roles in the 90s, his roles are either AntiHero, NobleDemon or played as parody. ''The Longest Night'' is the first and only role in the 90s where Leung is a flat-out sadistic villian.
** While Tony Leung did portray various antagonist roles in the 90s, his roles are either AntiHero, NobleDemon or played as parody. ''The Longest Night'' is the first and only role in the 90s where Leung is a flat-out sadistic villian.
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* WouldHurtAGirl: Sam, who beats the snot out of Fong after she tries to betray him, in one of his many PoliceBrutality moments. Including threatening to [[EyeScream shove a pencil into her eye]].
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* WouldHurtAGirl: WouldHitAGirl: Sam, who beats the snot out of Fong after she tries to betray him, in one of his many PoliceBrutality moments. Including threatening to [[EyeScream shove a pencil into her eye]].
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[[caption-width-right:350:Guess who is the good guy?]]
''The Longest Night'', also known as ''Dark Flowers'', is a 1998 Hong Kong crime thriller starring Creator/TonyLeung, who in a surprising twist, plays a corrupt cop who delights in abusing his power, who had to face a triad mobster (Lau Ching-wan) in a battle of wits.
A corrupt cop, Sam (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) is handling the negotiations between two Triad leaders who plan to join forces (while being the informant of one side, planning to scam over his superiors for his own benefits). But a suspicious bald man named Tony (Lau Ching-wan) repeatedly stalks Sam and attempt to disrupt his personal business. When Tony tries implicating Sam in a murder case, Sam and Tony prepares to confront each other in what is probably [[TitleDrop The Longest Night]] in their lives.
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!! Features examples of:
* AffablyEvil: Tony may be a mobster and Sam’s personal nemesis, but he’s also polite, smiles a lot, charming and rather charismatic.
* AssassinsAreAlwaysBetrayed: [[spoiler: Right in the end of the movie, Sam gets offed by the triad syndicate he’s an informer for]], in a YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness moment.
* BadassMustache: Both Sam and Tony. Sam in particular overlaps into DastardlyWhiplash territory.
* BaldOfEvil: Tony, the triad informant and mob leader. [[spoiler: And in the end of the film, Sam is revealed to have shaved his head as well]].
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: Sam]].
* BulletproofVest: This is what saves Sam when a group of mobsters tries to betray him, whereupon he draws his gun and take out the mobsters in a shootout. [[spoiler: But it doesn’t save him from the ending betrayal, because in that scene he gets shot behind the head]].
* CoolShades: Sam and Tony, but they only wear these in daytime or when outdoors.
* CorruptCop: Sam, played by Tony Leung in his most sadistic mode.
* DarkenedBuildingShootout: The final 1-vs-1 shootout between Sam and Tony.
* DriverFacesPassenger: This happens when Tony is being intimidated by a mobster while in a moving car. Who tells Tony to JustKeepDriving.
* EvilVersusEvil: Sam, a corrupt cop and ruthless informant, against Tony, a mobster and killer.
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin True to its title]], the confrontation between Sam and Tony, the main plot of the film, takes place over the course of one night.
* FaceFramedInShadow: Tony and Sam in several scenes, to showcase their sinister allegiances.
* {{Fingore}}:
** An interrogation scene in a bar had Sam ordering two fellow thugs to restrain an informant, then brutally crippling the informant by smashing his fingers repeatedly with a bottle. And rub it into the crippled man’s face by challenging him to pick up a gun with his now useless hands.
** Later on, Sam tortures another informant by having his hand restrained to a clamp, and driving pointed iron rods underneath his fingernails.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Sam, in the end of the movie, where he survived his ultimate confrontation with Tony ([[spoiler: Tony didn’t]]), the rival triads’ boss is dead, there are zero witness and evidence of his corruption activities and he is close to getting away scot-free for the crimes he committed. [[spoiler: Then he gets shot in the head by his own benefactor]]. Roll credits.
* MexicanStandoff: The first mano-on-man faceoff between Tony and Sam, where Tony is revealed to have a concealed pistol, and both men draw guns on each other. But in the end neither pulls the trigger, and their confrontation is postponed for the climax.
* OffWithHisHead: Boss Yong, a triad leader, is killed by Tony with his head removed and stored in a duffel bag. In Sam’s locker.
** Later in the final showdown, a sliding glass panel [[spoiler: removes Tony’s head]].
* OddballIntheSeries: Evil Tony Leung? Really?
* OutrunTheFireball: A confrontation between Tony and Sam in a nightclub kitchen had Tony igniting the stoves, causing a huge fire instantly that Sam had to leap away from.
* PoliceBrutality: Sam, who takes delight in ColdBloodedTorture during his various JackBauerInterrogationTechnique moments.
* SurpriseCarCrash: While Tony is being intimidated by another mobster in the same car as him and pointing a gun at Tony’s face, Tony instead [[HoldingTheFloor stalls for time by having a long-winded conversation]] with his captor to deliberately invoke this trope. Sure enough, the car crashes into another vehicle coming from another junction, but being GenreSavvy Tony already had his seatbelts on.
* WouldHurtAGirl: Sam, who beats the snot out of Fong after she tries to betray him, in one of his many PoliceBrutality moments. Including threatening to [[EyeScream shove a pencil into her eye]].
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[[caption-width-right:350:Guess who is the good guy?]]
''The Longest Night'', also known as ''Dark Flowers'', is a 1998 Hong Kong crime thriller starring Creator/TonyLeung, who in a surprising twist, plays a corrupt cop who delights in abusing his power, who had to face a triad mobster (Lau Ching-wan) in a battle of wits.
A corrupt cop, Sam (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) is handling the negotiations between two Triad leaders who plan to join forces (while being the informant of one side, planning to scam over his superiors for his own benefits). But a suspicious bald man named Tony (Lau Ching-wan) repeatedly stalks Sam and attempt to disrupt his personal business. When Tony tries implicating Sam in a murder case, Sam and Tony prepares to confront each other in what is probably [[TitleDrop The Longest Night]] in their lives.
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!! Features examples of:
* AffablyEvil: Tony may be a mobster and Sam’s personal nemesis, but he’s also polite, smiles a lot, charming and rather charismatic.
* AssassinsAreAlwaysBetrayed: [[spoiler: Right in the end of the movie, Sam gets offed by the triad syndicate he’s an informer for]], in a YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness moment.
* BadassMustache: Both Sam and Tony. Sam in particular overlaps into DastardlyWhiplash territory.
* BaldOfEvil: Tony, the triad informant and mob leader. [[spoiler: And in the end of the film, Sam is revealed to have shaved his head as well]].
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: Sam]].
* BulletproofVest: This is what saves Sam when a group of mobsters tries to betray him, whereupon he draws his gun and take out the mobsters in a shootout. [[spoiler: But it doesn’t save him from the ending betrayal, because in that scene he gets shot behind the head]].
* CoolShades: Sam and Tony, but they only wear these in daytime or when outdoors.
* CorruptCop: Sam, played by Tony Leung in his most sadistic mode.
* DarkenedBuildingShootout: The final 1-vs-1 shootout between Sam and Tony.
* DriverFacesPassenger: This happens when Tony is being intimidated by a mobster while in a moving car. Who tells Tony to JustKeepDriving.
* EvilVersusEvil: Sam, a corrupt cop and ruthless informant, against Tony, a mobster and killer.
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin True to its title]], the confrontation between Sam and Tony, the main plot of the film, takes place over the course of one night.
* FaceFramedInShadow: Tony and Sam in several scenes, to showcase their sinister allegiances.
* {{Fingore}}:
** An interrogation scene in a bar had Sam ordering two fellow thugs to restrain an informant, then brutally crippling the informant by smashing his fingers repeatedly with a bottle. And rub it into the crippled man’s face by challenging him to pick up a gun with his now useless hands.
** Later on, Sam tortures another informant by having his hand restrained to a clamp, and driving pointed iron rods underneath his fingernails.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Sam, in the end of the movie, where he survived his ultimate confrontation with Tony ([[spoiler: Tony didn’t]]), the rival triads’ boss is dead, there are zero witness and evidence of his corruption activities and he is close to getting away scot-free for the crimes he committed. [[spoiler: Then he gets shot in the head by his own benefactor]]. Roll credits.
* MexicanStandoff: The first mano-on-man faceoff between Tony and Sam, where Tony is revealed to have a concealed pistol, and both men draw guns on each other. But in the end neither pulls the trigger, and their confrontation is postponed for the climax.
* OffWithHisHead: Boss Yong, a triad leader, is killed by Tony with his head removed and stored in a duffel bag. In Sam’s locker.
** Later in the final showdown, a sliding glass panel [[spoiler: removes Tony’s head]].
* OddballIntheSeries: Evil Tony Leung? Really?
* OutrunTheFireball: A confrontation between Tony and Sam in a nightclub kitchen had Tony igniting the stoves, causing a huge fire instantly that Sam had to leap away from.
* PoliceBrutality: Sam, who takes delight in ColdBloodedTorture during his various JackBauerInterrogationTechnique moments.
* SurpriseCarCrash: While Tony is being intimidated by another mobster in the same car as him and pointing a gun at Tony’s face, Tony instead [[HoldingTheFloor stalls for time by having a long-winded conversation]] with his captor to deliberately invoke this trope. Sure enough, the car crashes into another vehicle coming from another junction, but being GenreSavvy Tony already had his seatbelts on.
* WouldHurtAGirl: Sam, who beats the snot out of Fong after she tries to betray him, in one of his many PoliceBrutality moments. Including threatening to [[EyeScream shove a pencil into her eye]].
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