The story is pretty solid, some great shots of Hong Kong that just make me want to play the video game Sleeping Dogs again. I even had a snicker out of one of the people who made this movie. His name is Dickson Poon. Yes I'm still 11 at heart.
The story is a good revenge story. Simple but a lot more memorable than the last Asian movie I watched with subtitles. The fighting is so much better than for instance his movie "The Crow" and good for Brandon if he really did learn how to speak the language for the role. I really do think this movie has potential if they remade it today as it is still as relevant.
I really disliked the musical score it came off as cheap. I wasn't expecting top 40 music from popular artists or epic multi million dollar orchestras to convey each scene as if you were there but they were bad.
However my big concern with this movie is it seems the last bit of the movie just came off as rushed or pieced together when Brandon gets out of jail. He tries to escape this guard says, better to spend your 8 years there. No escaping for you. Then 5 seconds later the 8 years are up. No gray hairs, nothing. Then after about 10 or so minutes he goes and gets his revenge. The ending not necessarily the happiest which can work but the bad guy worked, not amazing but was believable. If anything the last bit of this movie they should have done a better job writing. It's just lazy like come on we only got another 100 grand to finish this movie, sniff sniff I mean 99 grand.
Would I watch this again? No. I'd watch showdown in little tokyo instead and you should too.
The story is a good revenge story. Simple but a lot more memorable than the last Asian movie I watched with subtitles. The fighting is so much better than for instance his movie "The Crow" and good for Brandon if he really did learn how to speak the language for the role. I really do think this movie has potential if they remade it today as it is still as relevant.
I really disliked the musical score it came off as cheap. I wasn't expecting top 40 music from popular artists or epic multi million dollar orchestras to convey each scene as if you were there but they were bad.
However my big concern with this movie is it seems the last bit of the movie just came off as rushed or pieced together when Brandon gets out of jail. He tries to escape this guard says, better to spend your 8 years there. No escaping for you. Then 5 seconds later the 8 years are up. No gray hairs, nothing. Then after about 10 or so minutes he goes and gets his revenge. The ending not necessarily the happiest which can work but the bad guy worked, not amazing but was believable. If anything the last bit of this movie they should have done a better job writing. It's just lazy like come on we only got another 100 grand to finish this movie, sniff sniff I mean 99 grand.
Would I watch this again? No. I'd watch showdown in little tokyo instead and you should too.