Wilson Yip is a great director, I’ve read positive things about his last film ‘Dragon Tiger Gate’ but haven’t yet got round to watching it. He’s also responsible for SPL (Sha Po Lang) which honestly I wasn’t crazy about even though a lot of my friends were and ‘Biozombie’ which is a really great low budget zom-com.

Yip’s new film ‘Flashpoint’ stars the ridiculously-ripped-to-be-so-old Donnie Yen (still looks 26… is actually 43) and from the trailer seems to be a balls out scrap-fest from start to finish. I myself am picking up tips already, I want to master the pick-up-a-dude… throw-said-dude-into-mailbox manoeuvre. Once I’ve got that licked some suckers have got a meeting with sheet metal.

Set during the 1990s in pre-handover Hong Kong, the story follows two cops in their years-long attempt to capture three powerful triad bosses. Things have gone terribly awry when one of the cops blows his cover as a mole.

Twitch reports that it’s been picked up for North American distribution by a South African company ‘Distant Horizon’ but as the film isn’t released in Asia until August there’s currently no dates set for release elsewhere.