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Exiled (2007)

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Reviews Counted:60

Fresh:49

Rotten:11

Average Rating:7.2/10

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 [See Full Rating] for strong violence and some sexual content.

Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

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... 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. Joining this virile cast are Richie Jen and Nick Cheung, both of whom worked previously with Johnnie To in Breaking News, as well as new collaborator Josie Ho (Butterfly). The time is 1998. The setting is Macau. Every living soul jumps at every chance to make quick money before the Portuguese colony ushers in a new era under the Chinese rule. For the jaded hit men, they wonder where this journey will end. Against this background of fin-de-siècle malaise come two hit men from Hong Kong sent to take out a renegade member trying to turn over a new leaf with his wife and newborn baby. They soon find themselves in the throes of a dilemma when two of their former associates also show up, intent on thwarting them at every cost. --© Magnolia Films [More]

Starring: Anthony Wong, Francis Ng, Roy Cheung, Lam Suet

Starring: Anthony Wong, Francis Ng, Roy Cheung, Lam Suet, Simon Yam, Nick Cheung, Josie Ho

Director: Johnnie To, Cheng Siu Keung

Director: Johnnie To
Screenwriter: Szeto Kam Yuen, Yip Tin Shing
Producer: Johnnie To
Director: Cheng Siu Keung
Composer: Guy Zerafa
Studio: Magnolia Pictures

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An intriguing setting and several witty, inventive directorial touches raise this above the average Hong Kong gangster thriller.

Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | comment Comment
09/02/07
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

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.

Full Review Source: Total Film | comment Comment
06/15/07
Ceri Thomas
Ceri Thomas
Total Film

A much better showcase for his talents

Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph | comment Comment
06/15/07
Tim Robey
Tim Robey
Daily Telegraph
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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

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
06/15/07
Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]
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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.

Full Review Source: Times [UK] | comment Comment
06/15/07
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide
Times [UK]
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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.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
06/15/07
Leigh Singer
Leigh Singer
Channel 4 Film
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Saved by set-piece action.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
06/15/07
Matthew Leyland
Matthew Leyland
BBC
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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.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment 1 Comment
06/15/07
Kat Brown
Kat Brown
Empire Magazine
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It’s cool, thematically involving, knowing and sustained in its tension. Are you watching, Michael Mann?

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
06/14/07
Trevor Johnston
Trevor Johnston
Time Out
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Exiled veers on the pretentious ...but the whole thing has such a humor about itself that it's hard to carp about it.

Full Review Source: GreenCine | comment Comment
07/30/09
Craig Phillips
Craig Phillips
GreenCine
N/R

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Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
03/26/09
Derek Elley
Derek Elley
Variety
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Full Review Source: Time Out New York | comment Comment
01/18/08
David Fear
David Fear
Time Out New York

To call Exiled Johnnie To's finest film would be an understatement.

Full Review Source: Mike Bracken's Horror Films | comment Comment
01/02/08
Mike Bracken
Mike Bracken
Mike Bracken's Horror Films

An electric, inventive amalgam of gonzo violence and lyrical sentimentality.

Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness | comment Comment
12/21/07
Nick Schager
Nick Schager
Lessons of Darkness

Johnny To's direction is as smooth as a well-cut suit and the violence has a balletic intensity.

Full Review Source: Eye for Film | comment Comment
12/07/07
Amber Wilkinson
Amber Wilkinson
Eye for Film

A simmering pot of blood and yucks, accented with guitar and harmonica on the soundtrack.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
11/02/07
Wesley Morris
Wesley Morris
Boston Globe

Less a movie than a phantasmagorical dream synthesised from Sergio Leone and Sam Peckinpah.

Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | comment Comment
09/14/07
Tim Brayton
Tim Brayton
Antagony & Ecstasy

The finale is a slow-motion tour de force that blends style, elegance and nuance of character in showers of blood.

Full Review Source: Seattle Times | comment Comment
09/14/07
Ted Fry
Ted Fry
Seattle Times

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.

Full Review Source: The Stranger (Seattle, WA) | comment Comment
09/13/07
Andrew Wright
Andrew Wright
The Stranger (Seattle, WA)

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.

Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | comment Comment
09/13/07
Sean Axmaker
Sean Axmaker
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
 
 
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