When a gang boss is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he looks to two of his lieutenants to take over but in the end betrays them both by stealthily getting them and their gangs to fight each other to the death.
Its colourful characters, uninhibited display of gangland violence, and cheeky adaptation of political statements taken from the city's increasingly farcical reality are enough to make this an eloquent footnote in Hong Kong pop culture.
