Vengeance (2009)
7/10
Revenge With Style
31 January 2014
Warning: Spoilers
A blonde wife advises her children not to run under the rain while her husband, a Chinese local returns from home. She was cooking spaghetti for dinner when someone rang at the door when her husband checked the peephole – a shotgun fired through the door without warning and shot to death by three unknown hit men.

Forcing his wife and her two children into hiding upstairs in the master bedroom. Her children are kept safe inside the wardrobe while she gets her gun ready while one of the hit-man lean against the wall and she began to shoot and it hits his ear. She was gunned down and her children saw her on the ground.The children has seen the hit men faces and one of the hit-man has no choice but to assassinate them.

The wife arrived in the hospital, still breathing but under paralysis circumstances. An elderly man touchdown in Hong Kong to visit the paralyze woman; who happened to be his daughter: Irene Costello (Sylvie Testud). The father spoke to her in French and she told him and she wants vengeance.

François Costello aka Mr. Costello (Johnny Hallyday) went on his own investigation seeking for hit men for himself. Soon, he found Kwai (Anthony Wong), Chu (Gordon Lam Ka-Tung) and Fei Lok (Lam Suet) as his choice. Their reward would all his wealth and a restaurant in France. When asked about his background-he told them that he is chef but his former life was a hit-man back 20 years ago. But his weakness is his illness that he might not remember anyone or anything he does.

Mr. Costello ran away from the scene and found himself loss and trying to recall his hit men.

When their investigation starts to bear fruit, the hit men who kills his daughter family is none other than fishermen: Wolf (Eddie Cheung Siu Fai), Python (Felix Wong) and Crow (Ng Ting Yip).

The standoff between the Mr. Costello's hit men and his enemies went awry when they get to escape. Mr. Costello was badly injured and Fei Lok got hit in his ass.

Kwai received a phone call from his potential client, George Fung (Simon Yam); who direct the hit on his girlfriend and her lover when he found out the affair somewhere in the scene. Mr. Fung then ask him and his men to attend to another group of hit men who was shot by "3 Chinese men and 1 white man" which brings them back to them.

Kwai, Chu and Fei Lok had decided to disobey their paymaster and helped Mr. Costello. Disagreement and disloyalty always ended up with the final showdown.
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