Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

Console best movie i've ever seen.

ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

imdb-45 I didn't know who Johnny Halliday was and someone here hilariously described him as an alien lizard, which apparently plastic surgery has helped with the transformation. I'll say that 5 is an average forgettable film. This one is a little better, but it's nothing new and ultimately fails to be a movie you'd look forward to after repeat showings.The actors are actually quite good and the leads have character. The sets and cinematography is also good - as is the camera-work - and much better than your traditional Hong Kong chop-socky films. Unfortunately this film ultimately fails in too many ways and that is really a shame. Too clichéd, too much focus on style and too little on sense with a middling script that is a little questionable, to say the least.1. Scene one there is a display of the master level of proficiency each of the "good" villains have with a gun. Forward a short while later and nobody can hit an elephant if it was standing still - since that would probably spoil the length of the chase scene.2. The opening scene itself didn't make any sense, since the characters themselves admit what they "should have done" and which the Johnny himself could have made clear right from the start. This is not the only examples of characters doing things for a movie style and to further a plot rather than what is clearly natural.3. There is almost a sense of characters doing things and "dying in honor" because of the plot, not because of the way people generally act. If you've got problems, you get out. You don't stick around believing you'll pull off the impossible. And then there are some pretty interesting scenes that are "cool to watch" but also seem like stunts that go beyond even suspending disbelief.And then there are the clichés, clichés, clichés... I'd really like to give this film a better rating and will say that it's certainly watchable. It's just a failed opportunity.... especially the ending... which could not be more predictable and utterly clichéd in the way it is handled. More disbelief. Enjoy it for what it is.

Movie Critic Initial camera work looked promising but this is movie is so boring and the plot consisting almost entirely of gun battles and gore.The story: Johnny Halladay 68 (French crooner from 60s) has a family in Macau or Hong Kong who is massacred by a thug. To get vengeance (title) Halladay recruits some thugs of his own. Turns out he used to be in the French underworld no doubt a Corsican (Contelli his name) and knows how to go about this business. Halladay at 68 looks like nothing else on the planet earth thanks to plastic surgery dye and make up. The plot is nothing but a series of shoot out and pulling bullets out of people.Don't waste your time. In addition closed captioning would have helped a lot to follow this thing as Halladay's and his oriental cohorts' English was not the easiest to decipher--at least on an average TV.The cinematography of these HK cheapo movies has improved greatly but the writers have not.I finally fast forwarded it about a third the way through but why bother it just makes the incomprehensible totally opaque.. UNPLUG IT.Avoid avoid avoid. Evitez Evitez Evitez--mal mal mal...non non non...DO NOT RECOMMEND

madrhetoric Though I agree to a certain extent of why you don't like this movie, you have some pretty weak reasons why. "you barely care about the family murdered in the beginning". You are not supposed to care about the family, you are supposed to care about Costello. You are supposed to bond with him, Kwai, Chu, and Fat Lok as a team. "his amnesia never presents itself at all until the end of the movie, and Fung just suddenly realizes he has it with no explanation how." Costello takes pictures of Kwai, etc. because he cannot remember. The amnesia doesn't get really bad until the end, after having shot at Fung (meaning he knows what he looks like), that he needs the sticker to remind him who Fung was, and since Fung is a smart guy (BOSS!) I'm pretty sure he doesn't need someone to tell him that Costello has amnesia. This movie has many similar themes to other Johnnie To movies, and although it's not his best work, he does a very good job. If you don't like the English dialog because it's not perfect of "silly" go move to HK and help them make a better script and teach them better pronunciation. Also, remember this is a French/Honk Kong production, not an American one, so things like "serious crimes unit" are OK, since most of the target audience doesn't speak English as well as we do. They don't know the difference, and it really doesn't matter. Check out To's other films, like the Mission, Exiled,etc. if you haven't.

lastliberal You know when you watch a Johnnie To film that there will be a whole lot of bullets flying. There is no exception here. The number of guns and bullets was enough for a small war.Johnny Hallyday's family is attacked and his son-in-law and grandchildren are killed, and his daughter ends up in the hospital. He sells his apartment and restaurant and goes after the killers.He hires three Triad hit men who happen to work for the man who set the hit (Simon Yam). The bullets fly as they fight it out with the killers in the forest at night and later when they are successful, but then Fung (Yam) goes after them.Hallyday is all alone, but has a secret. He used to be a hit man himself. Nice to be able to finish the job.