Surprisingly incoherent and boring
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... View MoreExcellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
... View MoreThe movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
... View MoreA real good moive! Though dont be fooled, if youre searching for a fast paced hong kong action flick, this it not the right movie. Understand me right, i got a weakspot for oldscool John Woo, like Hard Boiled (1992) and so on (who dont), but this is a quite emotional, slowpaced movie, still it got quite some action, and a lots of shooting, but even the gunfights are slowpaced (though REALLY good). I likied this movie a lot. Further on the dynamics between chinese/french people worked really good as well. Watch it! And a tip; i watched this movie knowing virtually nothing about the plot, it made the movie even better i felt. I got a feeling the director wanted you to find out more and more about the characters as the movie went along, and not knowing the plot beforehand really improved this feel!
... View MoreKarmic collection of the hunter's being hunted . The final movie of his Brotherhood of Assassin's Trilogy .A woman and her family is murdered , and she makes a dying wish to her father to avenge her . The father (who suffers from memory loss) hires hitmen to assist him . Half shootout action , half mystery movie as they must solve this unknown assassination ... Story setting shifts from the Bright City Lights of Macau , to the underground of Hong Kong , to the familiar home of Wo and his wife from "Exiled" , where the final shootout begins ..
... View MoreIn Macau, a family is attacked by three killers and only the wife survives severely wounded. Her father, the French chef Francis Costello (Johnny Hallyday), travels to Macau to visit his daughter in the hospital and steals the photos of his daughter, her husband and two children from the police department to seek revenge against the killers. Costello stumbles with the independent hit-men Kwai (Anthony Wong Chau- Sang), Chu (Ka Tung Lam) and Fat Lok (Suet Lam) that are under contract with the mobster George Fung (Simon Yam) at his hotel and he hires the trio to hunt down the killers of his daughter's family. They locate the killers in Hong Kong and they travel to kill them. But they have a surprise when they discover who ordered to kill the family."Fuk sau" is a silly and funny action movie that follows the style of the "spaguetti" westerns, with killers killing each other. The amnesia of Francis Costello and the situations created by his mental problem are so ridiculous and unbelievable that spoils the entertaining story that becomes a comedy. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "Vingança" ("Revenge")
... View More"Vengeance" ("Fuk Sau") turned out to be quite nice. This is another great Johnnie To movie, and he is definitely in his right element with this movie.The movie is driven by a fairly good storyline, but also by the drama and action sequences, but ultimately it is the powerhouse performances by the actors in the movie that carry the movie most of the way. And here I must especially point out Anthony Wong Chau-Sang (playing Kwai), Ka Tung Lam (playing Chu), Suet Lam (playing Fat Lok) and Simon Yam (playing George Fung). I didn't care one bit for the performance put on by Johnny Hallyday (playing Costello), and I think the movie would have been just that much better had they cast someone else for that role.The storyline in "Vengeance" is about Costello who hires Kwai, Chu and Fat Lok to get revenge on those who killed his daughter, her husband and their children. It is a race to track down the culprits ranging from Macau to Hong Kong.Aside from my own personal dislike against the lead actor in the movie, then "Vengeance" is a definite watch movie, especially if you enjoy Hong Kong cinema.
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