{"id":39860,"date":"2025-09-03T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=39860"},"modified":"2025-09-02T18:48:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T22:48:18","slug":"city-on-fire-1987-directed-by-ringo-lam-starring-chow-yun-fat-and-danny-lee-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=39860","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;City on Fire&#8221; (1987) directed by Ringo Lam, starring Chow Yun-Fat and Danny Lee \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z090325zview_cityonfire.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"723\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>City on Fire <\/i>(1987)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: \u00a0<strong>Ringo Lam<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Tommy Sham;\u00a0<\/strong>story by <strong>Ringo Lam<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Chow Yun-Fat, Yueh Sun, Danny Lee<\/strong><strong>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: None.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ko Chow is an undercover cop who has infiltrated a group of jewel thieves.\u00a0 When a robbery goes sideways, people are killed.\u00a0 The crooks barely get away.\u00a0 The cops aren&#8217;t far behind.\u00a0 The thieves think someone ratted them out.\u00a0 The cops want them all dead or alive.<\/p>\n<p>Ko Chow is in a tight spot&#8230; and it&#8217;s getting tighter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>City on Fire<\/em> provided the inspiration for Quentin Tarantino&#8217;s <em>Reservoir Dogs<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Chow Yun-Fat and Danny Lee would re-team two years later in John Woo&#8217;s <em>The Killer<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><b><i><strong>City on Fire (1987)<\/strong> <\/i><\/b>rates 3 of 5 stars<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Rating:<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z090325zview_cityonfire2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"266\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City on Fire (1987) Director: \u00a0Ringo Lam Screenplay: Tommy Sham;\u00a0story by Ringo Lam Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Yueh Sun, Danny Lee.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39860"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39862,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39860\/revisions\/39862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}