P·J·费什威克

简介：聪明顽皮的小鬼头因淘气无意间识得金大发，金大发因发现当地恶霸曹天霸的恶行，欲上省城揭发，不料被曹发现，并派人追杀。小鬼头想保护他，最终只能是两人一起合力相斗，两人虽然逃脱追杀，但两股实力相差太甚，金与小鬼头能顺利达成铲除恶霸的心愿吗？　　片名：睡拳怪招 Sleeping Fist　　年份：1978　　地区：香港　　类型：功夫　　导演：叶荣祖 Wing-Cho Yip　　主演：　　梁家仁 Ka-Yan Leung　　袁小田 Siu Tien Yuen　　黄一龙 Yat Lung Wong　　高雄 Eddy Ko　　欧阳玲珑 Ling Lung AuYeung　　马金谷 Ma Chiu-Ku　　罗汉 Han Lo　　欧立保 Au Lap-bo　　戚毅雄 Yixiong Qi　　翁小虎 Weng Hsiao Hu　　萧德虎 Tak Foo Siu

Having witnessed his junkie father killed Russell Stevens grows up to become a policeman and make a difference. When he is offered an undercover job by Gerald Carver he accepts and begins to build a relationship with David Jason in order to get to the main dealers. However as he is forced to deal drugs and kill to keep his cover he finds the lines between cop and criminal being lost – is he a cop pretending to be a dealer or a dealer pretending to be a cop　　Larry (as he was then) Fishburne's first lead role was a typically dark vehicle. The story is the usual one of cop losing himself when undercover, however it manages to be more than that for most of the time. Co-written by Tolkin, who wrote The Player, this naturally has a nice cynical edge to it when it looks at the US's hypocritical approach to drug control and the political links between the street hustlers and the political high rollers who court respectability. The story does eventually settle into a traditional setting but even then it works well as a thriller.　　The multi-talented Bill Duke directs well with a gritty feel and a few nice touches. However several things are a bit iffy. For most of the film Fishburne's narrationvoice over is a bit like a cross between Apocalypse Now and Blade Runner – it comes across as a little too dark and heavy and also explains things like we can't figure it out ourselves. However once you get into the film it's not as big a deal. My main problem lies with the characters.　　Fishburne is excellent, a real model of underlying anger and violence, Goldblum is good but perhaps a little OTT on the yuppieviolence thing, but there's good support from Smith and Spin City's beautiful (and often underused – but not here) Victoria Dillard. However the two main white characters (Goldblum and Smith) are both smeared with racist insinuations – Smith appears to insult his black officers and doesn't care about the junkies, while Goldblum is fascinated about all things black and talks about them as wild beautiful beasts and loves having sex with black'. These things aren't a major problem, but with basically only two white characters in it, it's a little worrying that both are given that edge.　　However these are minor complaints that get lost with a good thriller. Fishburne excels and Duke delivers a story that is a good thriller but also has a jaded, subversive edge.