Genre maestro Herman Yau follows his highly successful showstopper The White Storm 2: Drug Lords (NYAFF 2019) with this even more hyperbolic and gritty entry in the gonzo super-cops vs. crazy crooks series. Hong Kong movie legends Louis Koo, Aaron Kwok and Sean Lau appear together for the first time on the big screen. Yau ups the ante, setting the action in the notorious Golden Triangle and delving deeper into the moral dilemmas of his archetypal characters. Kwok plays Cheung, an undercover cop who infiltrates a drug cartel led by a notorious Thai drug lord (Lau). In classic heroic bloodshed fashion, the two develop a bond of brotherhood. Cheung’s only hope to escape the treacherous jungle region and his ambiguous morality is to somehow contact the superintendent of the Hong Kong Narcotics Bureau (Koo), who has solemnly sworn to save Cheung and demolish the cartel once and for all.