It seems an ambitious project highly reminiscent of the movie Heat (1995) at first glance, but it fails pretty flat.
First, the plot in a whole is alright, but some minor details make no sense. (These happens at the beginning of the movie so, well if you count it as spoilers, here you go SPOILER ALERT) Like, why didn't Hu Jun just kill Andy Law at the heist after Andy was hit by a car, especially he killed the hostage anyway. Have you ever seen a crane worked? It moves pretty slow, and using that to catch a car is like picking up a toothpick in a claw crane. And since when can a civilian enter a police war room just to return a policeman his identification card?
Second, the character development is rather cliché. Andy Law basically accomplished nothing at the first half of the movie except shouting at people, showing how an incompetent cop he is. Lam Ka Tung's character is more interesting, but still there is nothing new here. I was almost pulling my hair when I hear the "I want to be a good guy" thing right out from infernal affairs. The bad guys are so one dimensional that they just rob bank escort cars and shoot a lot.
And we come to the effects. Oh boy was that bad. The CGI looks fake as hell. Every collision breaks the law of conversation of momentum, like a high-speed car projectile got stopped by an immovable fence. Every bullet like it's the laser beam from Star Wars. The gunshot wounds look as fake as Death Proof. The shot Andy Lau was bombed into the air was so laughably stupid that I thought it was Looney Toons.
All in all, I must admit it's fairly entertaining, but didn't achieve half of the ambition it wanted to achieve. If you like simple police- thief action movie, you can give it a watch.
First, the plot in a whole is alright, but some minor details make no sense. (These happens at the beginning of the movie so, well if you count it as spoilers, here you go SPOILER ALERT) Like, why didn't Hu Jun just kill Andy Law at the heist after Andy was hit by a car, especially he killed the hostage anyway. Have you ever seen a crane worked? It moves pretty slow, and using that to catch a car is like picking up a toothpick in a claw crane. And since when can a civilian enter a police war room just to return a policeman his identification card?
Second, the character development is rather cliché. Andy Law basically accomplished nothing at the first half of the movie except shouting at people, showing how an incompetent cop he is. Lam Ka Tung's character is more interesting, but still there is nothing new here. I was almost pulling my hair when I hear the "I want to be a good guy" thing right out from infernal affairs. The bad guys are so one dimensional that they just rob bank escort cars and shoot a lot.
And we come to the effects. Oh boy was that bad. The CGI looks fake as hell. Every collision breaks the law of conversation of momentum, like a high-speed car projectile got stopped by an immovable fence. Every bullet like it's the laser beam from Star Wars. The gunshot wounds look as fake as Death Proof. The shot Andy Lau was bombed into the air was so laughably stupid that I thought it was Looney Toons.
All in all, I must admit it's fairly entertaining, but didn't achieve half of the ambition it wanted to achieve. If you like simple police- thief action movie, you can give it a watch.