"Hong Kong Police Inspector Jun Ma (Donnie Yen) is a baaaaad man. How bad? When we first see him, he’s gotten news that a suspect he has been looking for has resurfaced in a gym. Ma proceeds over to the gym, gets in the ring with the suspect, and beats the living Jesus out of him. Later, after he is reprimanded by his superiors for excessive force, a list of complaints that is an arm long, he demands an ending to the proceedings, before chiding them for wasting an hour of his time. This results in his demotion to the police force’s music department. Mind you, not that that’s going to stop him. Remember, Jun Ma is a baaaaaaad man.

FLASH POINT is most certainly another notch in Donnie Yen’s growing oeuvre as an actor and action choreographer. The fact that Yen also choreographs the action explains the seamless integration of the movie’s fights with its surroundings and its leading man. When the fists fly, the director’s job is finished, and Yen’s has just begun.

FLASH POINT belongs in the new crop of Hong Kong films that have begun to take shape over the last few years and found a major following in International markets tired of the same stuff. It’s a genre with hardcore fighting that isn’t predicated on styles or even signature moves, where violence looms, threatens, and finally develops in a heated “debate” of fists and kicks. You probably wouldn’t have seen anything like FLASH POINT ten or even five years ago, and it seems Yen has helped to usher in this new genre of Hong Kong action-crime films that combines grit, martial arts, and crime that has never been seen before. I’ve liked what I’ve seen so far, and may it live long and prosper." - Beyond Hollywood