- Studio: Lions Gate Films
- Release Date: Dec 22, 2000
- Summary: After a gang murder, a detective force of seven men must hunt down the killer and leader of a massive drug cartel.
- Director: Myung-se Lee
- Genre(s): Action, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 5 out of 14
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Mixed: 9 out of 14
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Negative: 0 out of 14
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The entire film is a feast for the eyes that brings to mind the work of Hong Kong ace Wong Kar-Wai.
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75Lee pushes this joyride into stimulation overdrive, playing with colors and film speeds and surfaces and shadows until it makes perfect sense that a movie should be all about energy, rather than -- well, about anything else at all.
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60This crowd-pleasing spectacle is like a series of showstopper sequences from a musical without much attention paid to the story that is supposed to hold it all together.
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60Lee can't tell a story to save his life, but he's something of a visual magician, laying out glittering piles of goodies that you instinctively want to follow.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 4
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Mixed: 0 out of 4
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Negative: 0 out of 4