lets see....... A+ director, A+ cast, my fav action actor Donnie yen in here, = excellent movie for sure.................. not quite....
seriously, the actors are great. anthony wong does his thing as usual, shu qi is solid, shawn yue appears for 1min, donnie yen is great in the action sequences (there are tons in here), but the plot? trash, straight up trash
seems like the script was written in 3 hours and they just went with it. come on, i doubled checked who directed the film. its andrew lau, the mastermind behind infernal affairs......, i expected at least a mediocre plot. im highly disappointed.
this is the plot:
click to show/hide spoilerschinese must unite, japan is evil. donnie yen single handedly take down every single japanese in shanghai. over. (call it propaganda or call it history, but its repetitive, we've seen the same plot from fearless, ip man, etc etc) ok, its still understandable.
but then u throw in shu qi's character in here, who is compeltely useless to form a semi love relationship, which was not convincing. then u throw in random events from the head cop officer, random events from anthony wong which didnt even matter much, random event from donnie's brothers + family which was jsut rushed in, and the death of the head newspaper guy (who was never introduced in the movie), but they made it a bigger scene than donnie's family dying and shu qi dying? unacceptable.
this seems like one of those cheap film just to get box office money while donnie yen is hot, and also a propaganda film.
the only reason to watch this is the action sequence, i give this a 4/10