The Blood Rules   (2000)       

                                                               Universe Films Distribution Company Limited  |  Century Creator Co., Limited  

                                                                                                   The Stormriders Management Co., Ltd.

 

                                                           

                                             Cast:  Michael Wong, Suki Kwan, Lam Suet, Jackie Lui, Stephen Au Kam Tong, 

                                                Wong Tin Lam, Pauline Yam, Crystal Tin, Paul Smith, Bill Lake

                                                                    Cameo:  Michael Lam, Samuel Leung                  

                                                                
                                                                          Presenter: Daneil Lam  Writer: James Yuen, Andy Lo
                                                     Producer:  Lee Siu Kei     Director: Marco Mak Chi Sin  

                                                  Genre: Crime | Action     Rating: IIB     Length: 94 minutes

 

                                                   "How come you know diamonds are planted on my dick?"

                                    

                         Representing the dregs of HK cinema, The Blood Rules is yet another movie in which the

                          protagonists are criminals. We can all relate to criminals, right? Everyone loves a crook.

                              
                           Mike (Michael Wong), Jean (Suki Kwan, billed here as Shooky Kwan), Shoot (Lam Suet) 

                          and Q (Jackie Lui) are a team of robbers. They get their orders from a corpulent pungent 

                        fried tofu loving geezer called Uncle Lam (Wong Tin Lam, fresh from his role in The Mission). 

                           Though these four are cold blooded killers when robbing, they have their softer sides.

                       Jean, the romantic of the group, is hopelessly obsessed with Mike, who is a married father.

                                     Shoot owns an aquarium and enjoys showing off his fishes to the local kids.

                                                                

                        After successfully completing a jewellery heist, Lam assigns what is meant to be their last

                             job- to steal the diamonds off of notorious gangster Chicken Sam's dicky. You read 

                                                                                     that correctly. 

                            However, (blood) rules are broken. Q gets cocky and shows off his money to impress 

                        chicks (a no-no). During Operation: Diamond Dicky, Chicken Sam captures Q and threatens 

                                         castration if Q doesn't reveal his conspirators. Guess what he does.

                          With their plans in ruins, violent retaliation from Chicken Sam's gang and the police and 

                          SDU in hot pursuit, it looks like they may not get to go scuba diving in Bermuda after all.

 

                           This is a DDDD (damn disappointing directorial debut) for veteran editor Marco Mak. It 

                              does at least have a FDSE (few decent seconds of entertainment). Perhaps the best 

                            scene is when the detective (Stephen Au) re-enacts his theory of how a crime went 

                             down, which is cleverly edited with the scenes from the crime itself. Though a lower 

                                  budget film, The Blood Rules also has a few nice digital effects to add interest.

                                                                              
                         There's little difference between The Blood Rules and other recent movies like The Group,

                         The Cheaters, Killer or Partners. All involve a team of criminal protagonists who generally 

                                                                       meet a tragic end. And all suck. 

                                            

                        Related viewing:  The Mission (1999) Francis Ng, Jackie Lui, Lam Suet, Wong Tin Lam

                                                                                 Partners- (2002) Eric Tsang, Michael Wong, Simon Yam

 

 

                                 

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