Hei xue AKA Will of Iron (David Chiang, 1991)

Immediately, during the opening credits, we learn that Maggie, Michael, Carol and Jacky used to be best friends. They were a 'gang', smoking pot together for the first time and Carol had married Jacky.

After this prologue, movie (actually her uncle) picks up Maggie at the airport. She came from Canada for a visit and is a bit disappointed that Michael wasn't there to meet her also. But no worries, he's on his way - he was just held at the office. He has a mobile phone too so we assume that he is a successful businessman.

Story then moves to the poor unfortunate Jacky. He is some kind of cartoon/comics artist and unfortunately hooked on cocaine. To make things even worse, Michael is not really a business man. He works for triads and also supplies coke to his friend.

In the next hour or so Jacky will fall into drugs trap even further, owing even more money and as a result become even greater asshole. Poor Carol will bitch about it and suffer and learned that she's pregnant. Bad guy drug pusher Sam will be introduced and Michael will have moral dilemmas about this whole setup. And Maggie of course will get pissed off and decide to take matters in her own capable hands.

And that's basically it. Sounds good but problem (at least for me) is that this is drama and not action movie. And not even very good drama. I'll rate it a bit more than it actually deserves because (1) at least is not too sentimental, (2) has pretty good drugs hallucination scene and (3) I was able to watch Maggie Cheung for 90 minutes.

5/10