Blood Brothers

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Audience Member an overly stylish crime/gangster flick, perhaps a bit too art-house-y for mainstream audiences but a must watch for film buffs =) Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Just another Triad movie. It has a great cast with Chien-lien Wu, Andy Lau, and Jacky Cheung, but the movie itself is not very interesting and full of cliches. It plods along at a boorish pace, and even with its great twist it still leaves too many questions unanswered. Not a recommended viewing pleasure, since its so standard and plain. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member A stylish but ultimately flawed gangster film. Bllood Brothers is set in Shanghai and has great production values. The problem is that John Woo didn't direct it - he only produced it. With his trademark style fully behind the pic it would have added much needed pace and kinetic balletic choreography and balletic stunts using far better action sequences. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member some top actors although the production is a little Hong Kong 1995, still, never saw that twist coming in another great triad film Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/23/23 Full Review Audience Member uhhh, Shawn Yue is just so sexy, he get all the credit Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Audience Member Upon it's release Jiang Hu seemed predestinded for HK cinema greatness with it's iconic lead actors, hip young supporting cast and epic triad drama theme. And it most certainly would have been recieved as a future classic of it's genre, were it not for the smug self-importance evident in every frame. Director Wong Ching-Po wallows in a kind of shallow coolness counterproductive to the desired effect, borrowing visual elements from every director and their mothers, while giving up on depth and thematic consistency. Wong admittedly comes a long way with pure style and technical brilliance, though, and Jiang Hu features some excellent cinematography by Charlie Lam, probably even better than his subsequent footage for Pang Ho Cheung's Isabella. What a shame then, that Wong should go from this flawed but promising work to wreck Karena Lam's carreer in the disastrous follow-up Ah Sou. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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