June 2, 2007
Great action melodrama. Sammo Hung is ferocious.
Donnie Yen, Sammo Hung, Simon Yam
This companion disc to the martial arts hit includes the following special features: "Born to be Bad" featurette with martial arts legend Sammo Hung, "First Amongst Equals" featurette with legendary l...( read more
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DVD Release Date: September 12, 2006
Stats: 507 reviews
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April 9, 2007Hardly the resurrection of HK gritty action films, as many have call it. Certainly a much better turn than most HK "action" films these days where teen idols take the leads instead of real action pros like the ones in this cast.
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March 24, 2007From Hong Kong comes a great martial arts crime thriller.... paving the way for modern Hong Kong cinema to fuse it very famous action genius with hard core and brilliant story telling.
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March 1, 2007its fantastic just to see decent action for once without masses of wires. its a truely good martial arts film using the actual skills of the combatants.
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March 24, 2007Man, title certainly matches the tone of the movie. This movie had some awesome fight scenes, especially the alley fight. Not the greatest story, but still a good movie.
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September 4, 2009This a great action film. The fight scenes are well edited and choreographed. I don't see why they had to link this story with chinese astrology. It really seems pointless.
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June 19, 2009Gave this film a second look this afternoon after purchasing it, it holds up really well on the second viewing.
A wonderfully layered police drama that sports some of the best martial arts I've seen in awhile.
Sammo Hung, Donnie Yen and Simon Yam are amazing to watch and the fi...( read more) -
April 14, 2009cool triads-cop flick .. superb Donnie Yen and Sammo Hung .. the fights and duels are excellent!!
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