Full Contact

Full Contact is a 1992 Hong Kong action film directed by Ringo Lam. The film stars Chow Yun Fat, Simon Yam, Anthony Wong, Ann Bridgewater and Bonnie Fu.

In an effort to get his buddy out of a gambling debt, Jeff (Chow Yun Fat) agrees to join forces with Judge (Simon Yam) in a weapons heist. The job goes bad and Judge betrays Jeff. Jeff plots the ultimate revenge on Judge and his followers and it is a question of whether he can follow through with his plan.

This film did poorly at the Hong Kong box office, where fans were not interested in seeing Chow play such a violent criminal. It was however a critical and cult favorite in the US and UK.

Alternate Versions

The Hong Kong Laserdisc release is severely edited to remove finger and wrist cutting, a gun shot through the cheek, bad guy suffering under Chow's bike, and several gunshots to the head. The Tai Seng DVD release is the original uncut version.

Taiwanese video includes extended version of the car scene with Sam and Virgin and has a total of 3 more minutes than Hong Kong video.

The BBFC cut 34 seconds for its cinema and video release.

In the original cut of the film, Judge tells Sam to bring him Jeff's eyes as proof of his death. Sam can't kill Jeff, so he cuts the eyes out of one of the bodies of the family in the house. Judge takes the eyes and eats them. This also helps explain Judge's comments about Jeff's "pretty eyes". If you watch Sam in the current versions, as he comes out of the house you can see his right hand is clenched and holding something - the eyes, of course. Director Lam says these scenes were cut and never saved. He stated had he known about the influence of DVD special features, they would have been.

Despite every prior UK video release of the film being cut in some way (for violence, violence against women, banned weapons, sexual content). It was release without any cuts and fully intact by Hong Kong Legends DVD. It also features the film fully uncut, as well as with an edited (subdued) music track as director Ringo Lam originally intended.