South Korea’s answer to the ‘Ocean’s’ films is a sleek, snappy heist movie with plenty of working parts, eccentric personalities, and thrillingly staged and executed action scenes.
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Johnny Hallyday gets ‘Vengeance,’ Johnnie To style, on VOD and DVD
Johnnie To, the reigning king of the crime movie and the romantic code of gangster brothers within the mercenary world of organized crime, delivers another perfect little genre piece with Vengeance (Hong Kong, 2009). French pop legend Johnny Hallyday stars as Costello, a retired pro who comes to Macau to take revenge on the men […]
‘The Mission’ – Johnnie To’s gangster brotherhood on VOD
Johnnie To took over the crown of Hong Kong’s king of crime thrillers after John Woo left for Hollywood and The Mission (1999) is the film that put him on the throne. The story is a generic gangster stuff: a middle-aged mob boss (Eddy Ko) survives an assassination and his brother / right hand man […]
‘Phantom of the Theatre’ – Hong Kong ghosts on Netflix
Phantom of the Theatre (2016) – The Phantom of the Opera looms large in this Hong Kong haunted theater / romantic melodrama set in 1930s Shanghai, where a grand show palace is reopened for the first time since a troupe of acrobats died in a fire 13 years before. An ambitious filmmaker (Yo Yang) wants […]