I'm a big fan of the actors involved, but I was disappointed by this film. Be warned, the movie isn't like the cover suggests.
It's like Chow Yun Fat phoned his agent one day and said "I'm tired of being a total badass of excellence - I want to do a film where I act like an annoying retard for most of it, but become badass for a few seconds just to remind people of what they're missing in the rest of the film and save the day at the end". By a crazy coincidence, Andy Lau had chosen a random word to define his next character, and that word was "incompetent annoying fool".
The (single!) gunfight may be quite good, and the ending is trademark cool Chow Yun Fat - but it doesn't justify the hour of wasted time in the middle with Andy money-grabbing and Chow Yun Fat sobbing like a child, with the implications of bonding between the two that never really works.
When the cover shows Chow holding a deck of cards and Andy holding a gun , I expect the criminal population of the city to have dropped by at least ten percent by the end of the film, along with some tense and exciting card scenes. Instead you get some embarrassing situational humour and unfunny slapstick.
It's like Chow Yun Fat phoned his agent one day and said "I'm tired of being a total badass of excellence - I want to do a film where I act like an annoying retard for most of it, but become badass for a few seconds just to remind people of what they're missing in the rest of the film and save the day at the end". By a crazy coincidence, Andy Lau had chosen a random word to define his next character, and that word was "incompetent annoying fool".
The (single!) gunfight may be quite good, and the ending is trademark cool Chow Yun Fat - but it doesn't justify the hour of wasted time in the middle with Andy money-grabbing and Chow Yun Fat sobbing like a child, with the implications of bonding between the two that never really works.
When the cover shows Chow holding a deck of cards and Andy holding a gun , I expect the criminal population of the city to have dropped by at least ten percent by the end of the film, along with some tense and exciting card scenes. Instead you get some embarrassing situational humour and unfunny slapstick.