Part of me wishes it was a bit longer as to allow the core character dynamics even more time resonate, but it is still an effective and unique gangster story as it stands that has some of the most impressively choreographed shootouts I've ever seen and never once feels predictable. Not very far into his filmography but I feel like Johnnie To has a film in there that's going to completely blow me away.
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On the Run 1988
Pretty bleak and gritty, and thorny in the ideas surrounding its characters actions and their consequences. Nothing like any other Hong Kong action film but all the better for it.
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Decision to Leave 2022
Fucking unbearable. One of the most baffling films I've seen this year if not fucking ever. A poorly structured, paced and written both detective and love story in every conceivable way. The male lead turns in an atrocious performance, Tang Wei fares much better but her character is poorly written to insulting degrees and the film straight up refuses to engage with her in any meaningful way, rendering her performance impossible to engage with (though as a side note this…
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The boring self satisfied wank fantasy of a braindead edgelord teenage film student who thinks their significantly more interesting than they actually are. It's not scary, it's not sexy, it's not smart and it's not remotely fucking funny either (The same 'old people are scary, oh golly, oh gosh' review that I just read 50 fucking times is not remotely amusing, shut the fuck up). The script is predictable and…Translated from by
