SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Excellent but underrated film

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

I was surprised to see such a praise to this awful movie here at IMDb, so watched this on Netflix. This movie has a very convoluted plot with non-sensible fight scenes in between.The portrayal of police and their handling of the case is childish. When the plot has nothing to offer fight scenes are thrown in without much sense. One of the suspects ran from the police with four guys chasing, even several blows from steel rod could not hurt the suspect. Kicks and punches are fast but look absurd as kids fighting. Avoid wasting your time.

Utterly gray, the show's 4 policemen uses illegal methods to take down main criminal (Sammo Hung) when legal methods fail. In comes the new inspector (Donnie Yen) that is to take over retiring inspector's (Simon Yam) position. Infamous for causing brain damage to an arms dealer in a single punch, he is initially excluded from the plans of the 4. When the policemen kill a criminal in an attempt to remove witnesses to complete a frame up of Hung, Yen arrives too late to stop them.Yam challenges Yen's moral high ground by bringing up his punching incident but we see later that Yen has been regretting his actions in not holding back his punch and trying to repay his "debt". 3 of the 4 policemen have other issues in their lives that is given a short amount of film time and when most of them get an ending, you will have to decide. Did they deserve it? The ending has a twist and is one that is based on karmic payback. You win the battle but you lose war.Note: Also i do not get why people in their reviews keep saying the woman could not have a baby. She miscarried twice, which means a greater chance of miscarrying but not a 100% chance

I read the reviews on IMDb, one superlative after another was used to describe how good this movie was. After some good movies like Kung Fu Hustle, Kung Pow and Shaolin Soccer I was really in the mood for another great martial art movie. Well, let me tell you the true story. The script of the movie is what we call very thin, sometimes stupid and let's not forget the stupid in between scenes or did I used the word stupid already? The latter could be bearable if the movie wasn't so incredibly boring, The action scenes, some described as the best of the last decade are not bad, but to call them good? They reminded me of 80's martial art movies fighting scenes with one big exception, in the 80's the scenes were good. Save your money and watch Kung Fu Hustle, Kung Pow or Shaolin Soccer instead.

I love eastern cinema. Be it Hong Action movie or quite a few of the recent South Korean efforts (and of course Kitano). Since Tony Jaa came onto the screen (and therefor into many peoples lives), pure action movies do have a difficult stand. Ong Bak (the first one) set a new bar concerning action scenes. They even set the bar higher with Tom Yum Goong. Story-wise on the other hand, both those movies had not that much to offer.And the same can be applied here. Though the movie tries to have a coherent story, it never got me involved into anything. But the action is more than decent (even when compared to the Jaa-Mayhem). So watch this for the action and try not to mind the story too much.