Donnie Yen continued to prove how awesome he is in the police thriller, Flash Point.

Ma (Yen) is a no-holds-barred cop, he’s more than willing to beat a criminal to a pulp to prove his point and make an arrest, and he’s been after three criminal brothers, Tiger (Xing Yu), Tony (Collin Chou) and Archer (Ray Liu) for some time now.

He’s yet to get a major break in the case. But his partner, Sheng (Louis Koo) is working undercover within the organization, and they may be onto something. Things take a dire turn when the brothers begin to kill off any witnesses that may be able to testify against them in an upcoming trial, and Sheng has just been rumbled.

Sheng gets into some serious trouble and is critically injured, which lets his girlfriend, Judy (Bingbing Fan), know that he’s actually a cop. She’s very adamant that he thinks about a new line of work, but unfortunately, things are going to go really badly for their blossoming romance and their unborn child, when she is kidnapped and Sheng is targeted by the brothers.

When things strike a little too close to home, Ma goes after the baddies and is very willing to lay the smackdown on all of them, and he’s so fast when he does it.

Wilson Yip may have directed the majority of the film, but Yen directed all of the action sequences and the climax of the film is intense brutal, and for some reason falls into that realm of everyone has all the bullets they need without reloading until they have to.

That doesn’t matter though, because once they start throwing punches and kicks, the film launches itself into high gear, and it’s one solid sequence after another. There would have been a couple of things I would have changed in one sequence but I think that’s just my own creativity infringing on that of the filmmakers.

And through it all, Yen looks insanely cool. His costume is perfect, and he embodies his role easily, he’s likable if you’re a good guy, and exudes danger if you’re about to prove yourself a villain. I also quite like the relationship his character establishes with Sheng, there’s something really solid there. I do have an issue with the fact that Judy is constantly referred to as just ‘the girlfriend.’ I mean, she has a name!

No matter the film, Donnie Yen is always likeable and brings his A-game each and every time, and he’s always incredibly watchable. This entry is no different and makes me think I may have to hunt down some more of his films in the very near future.