Alicia I love this movie so much

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Matylda Swan It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

dworldeater I have the US Lionsgate release , so I am unsure in any case if the US DVD is cut at all. The best thing about this movie is the cast. Which contains HK legends Sammo Hung, Simon Yam and supercop Danny Lee. Everything other than that is average at best. The story is nothing special and neither is the action . While there is plenty of violence and carnage, it is mostly CG. Plus said CGI is some of the worst I've seen since PS1 came out. Usually HK movies are classy and subtle with the use of CG. Not here, this is 'nt by any means a terrible film. Just an average action flick with horrible f/x and an exceptional cast. If you are new to Hong Kong cinema , I would say to watch another one of these actor's other movies instead . Otherwise keep your expectations low with this one . I give 4/10 for the movie and 6/10 when consideration for the awesome cast.

ebiros2 Fatal Move brings in new level of action in Hong Kong cinema. Cast is similar to that of SPL, and Sammo Hung and Simon Yam stars in this movie, this time working on the same side. The tone of the movie is similar to the one explored in the Infernal Affairs in that gangs will go to any extent to get their money, involvement between police and the gang is portrayed in detail, and deception plays a role in the story. What separates Fatal Move is the level of action and violence portrayed, and Wu Jing shows his fast and very beautifully choreographed move as the heavy in this movie. This movie to me is a ground breaking movie in Hong Kong action movie genre like Better Tomorrow did back in the '80s. While Better Tomorrow was somewhat mindless violence, this is violence with lots of intent backing it.The last fight between Wu Jing, and Sammo Hung was the only mindless battle, but if you have two such talent, you'd be remiss as a writer not to include this fight scene.Danny Lam plays the usual cop role, and Taiwanese actress Kelly Niu shows that she still looks great on the big screen.All of this brings good entertainment to this new age Hong Kong action movie. Highly recommended.

chrichtonsworld How can you go wrong with such an impressive cast. I mean Sammo Hung, Simon Yam,Wi Jing and many others should be enough to make a decent movie. Well it would have helped if the story was better. What was the point! Making A triad movie with some action in it or making an action movie with triad elements. Doesn't matter anyway because both attempts failed. But even then they could have made up for the bad story with decent action scenes and superb acting. Most of the actors are sleepwalking throughout the movie. And the action scenes were unimaginative and very poorly executed. The main flaw I think is the direction. The director hasn't got a clue what to do with the story which is evident at the end. While it was the best scene of the whole movie it didn't make any sense. Of course I am talking about the fight between Sammo Hung and Wu Jing. Without a doubt it was the highlight of this movie. But to be honest this fight came out of nowhere. Wu Jing a loyal subject of Sammo challenges him because he realizes that it is his last chance to do so. Not once did Wu Jing (at least in the movie) made it clear that it was his wish to find out who the better fighter was. And how can it be if you are loyal to your boss. I have said too much already. This movie is waste of time. Ignore it!

samuelding85 Put Sammo Hung and Simon Yam back together in this new Hong Kong action trial flick will not guarantee you much action and chemistry from their previous film, SPL (2005). Though it looks like a sequel of SPL in overall, unfortunately it lacks the punch that SPL has.While China born supporting actor Wu Jing (who also had a supporting role in SPL) appears as a supporting role in Fatal Move, it was somehow rather disappointing to see leading actor Donnie Yen (of Shanghai Knights, Blade 2 and Seven Swords) absent from the film. Instead, Hong Kong veteran actor Danny Lee moves in as his classic role of police detective that he had from years of acting. Another veteran actress, Kelly Tien Niu, finally made her big screen appearance again as the wife of Hung.In terms of story line, it looks like another 80's gangster flick from Hong Kong. Hung plays Lung, a trial gang leader who owns a firm that conducts illegal drug business. His younger brother Tung (Yam) and a group of followers pledge their loyalty to the firm, and of course, Lung's wife, Soso (Kelly). However, when a drug deal was busted by the police, an inner war broke out in the gang, where it was split into 2 sides, and both wants to get rid of each other. Detective Liu (Lee) stands aside and awaits to get rid of the gang when he discovers one of his men is a spy for the gang.Comparing Fatal to SPL, Fatal boasts a stronger appearance of veteran cast in a Hong Kong movie in the recent years. It is not that often where you get to see Hung, Yam, Lee and Kelly work together in a movie, not counting the number of other veteran actors making special appearance in the film. Another selling point of the film is the high amount of violence. If you are not prepare to see hand chopping during gang fights, sadistic torture ala Hostel liked torture or loads of throat slashing gore in the film, the Fatal is not the movie for you, even though the blood gushing scenes looks like some cheap CGI effects.For audience who missed the fighting between Hung and Yen in SPL, they will be fairly disappointed in Fatal, as Hung will not appear in any fights till the last 20 minutes of the film. And sad to say, it is the focus of supporting characters that has been placed too much, that it ends up both Hung and Yam had hardly any chance to explore their roles. To worsen this, Lee had hardly any appearance as Detective Liu, who wants to bring the trial gang to an end. Except from some explosive gun shooting scenes in the film, Lee has hardly any way to explore his role. It was Kelly with the role of Soso, that steals the limelight, as it seems that she was the focus of the film, compared to the rest of the male cast.Directer Dennis Law, who was the writer for Johnnie To's Election (2005) and Election 2 (2006) pens down the story, which he try to explore the ugly and violent side of the trial gang. But in the end, we got a movie that doesn't had the essence of Election, and lacks the punch of SPL.Fairly entertaining to those who do loves movie featuring trial gang, loads of bloodshed and violence.