An intriguing setting and several witty, inventive directorial touches raise this above the average Hong Kong gangster thriller.
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09/02/07
Exiled (2007)
81 %
Reviews Counted: 58 Fresh: 47 Rotten:11 Average Rating: 7.1/10
Consensus:
Exiled has non-stop action, tension and style -- making it an excellent summer action movie. Johnnie To brings beautiful scenery and camerawork to the film, enhancing the action even more.
Rated: 15
Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins
Theatrical Release: 15-06-2007
Synopsis: For the first time since The Mission in 1999, Anthony Wong (Infernal Affairs) and Francis Ng (Infernal Affairs 2) once again team up with Johnnie To and his regulars Roy Cheung (Infernal Affairs 2), Lam Suet (PTU), and Simon Yam (Election) in another action-packed ensemble piece Exiled.... [More]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Anthony Wong, Francis Ng, Roy Cheung, Lam Suet, Simon Yam
Director: Johnnie To
Screenwriter: Szeto Kam Yuen, Yip Tin Shing
Producer: Johnnie To
Director: Cheng Siu Keung
Composer: Guy Zerafa
Screenwriter: Szeto Kam Yuen, Yip Tin Shing
Producer: Johnnie To
Director: Cheng Siu Keung
Composer: Guy Zerafa
Reviews
offers no decent characters, crawls along and often doesn’t make sense – it’s simply a mechanism to deliver a gun battle every 20 minutes. Those shootouts are good, just not good enough to stop you looking at your watch.
06/15/07
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What's Cantonese for "badass"? It fits adjectivally with this very enjoyable action thriller with a bracing touch of political satire, from Johnny To
06/15/07
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An ultra-violent riff on Western genre conventions by way of the East, the film adds little new to To’s efficiently bloody oeuvre, but it’s great fun.
06/15/07
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Stylish tough guy mayhem that looks great but drags its feet going nowhere new. Election still gets the vote for Johnny To's best film.
06/15/07
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With not enough balls to be fun, and not enough brain to be cerebral, there’s not much going on behind those pained Western expressions to entertain.
06/15/07
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It’s cool, thematically involving, knowing and sustained in its tension. Are you watching, Michael Mann?
06/14/07
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An electric, inventive amalgam of gonzo violence and lyrical sentimentality.
12/21/07
A simmering pot of blood and yucks, accented with guitar and harmonica on the soundtrack.
11/02/07
Less a movie than a phantasmagorical dream synthesised from Sergio Leone and Sam Peckinpah.
09/14/07
The finale is a slow-motion tour de force that blends style, elegance and nuance of character in showers of blood.
09/14/07
A brilliant reminder of the glory days of Heroic Bloodshed ... call it a flashback, a comeback, or the end of an era; all I know is that I want to see it again.
09/13/07
It's a fantasy of a crime epic, to be sure, but it's a glorious fantasy in which the unspoken bonds of brotherhood bathe every shootout and sacrifice in the light of myth.
09/13/07
... possibly the best work the prolific filmmaker has done. In addition to the masterful blend of humor and action ... Exiled is the most beautifully shot movie so far this year.
09/12/07
It looks slick, but without a little more steak beneath that sizzle, the pretense becomes intolerable.
09/08/07
Exiled is creative and bizarre, maybe too bizarre, but since most action films adhere to a cookie-cutter formula, its quirkiness is most welcome.
09/07/07
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