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  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Well Go USA Entertainment
  • 1 h 28 m
  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Well Go USA Entertainment
  • 1 h 28 m

Summary When a police sting goes bad, a master criminal (Wallace Chung) makes a desperate choice: he forces the cops to shoot him, so he will be taken to the hospital. Once there, he refuses treatment, instead waiting for his cohorts to break him out. Caught between an obsessed cop (Louis Koo) and the troubled surgeon assigned to save his life (...

Directed By: Johnnie To

Written By: Ho-Leung Lau, Tin Shu Mak, Nai-Hoi Yau

  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Well Go USA Entertainment
  • 1 h 28 m
  • 2016
  • Not Rated
  • Well Go USA Entertainment
  • 1 h 28 m

Three

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
71
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings
6.7
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Summary When a police sting goes bad, a master criminal (Wallace Chung) makes a desperate choice: he forces the cops to shoot him, so he will be taken to the hospital. Once there, he refuses treatment, instead waiting for his cohorts to break him out. Caught between an obsessed cop (Louis Koo) and the troubled surgeon assigned to save his life (...

Directed By: Johnnie To

Written By: Ho-Leung Lau, Tin Shu Mak, Nai-Hoi Yau

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
71
80% Positive
8 Reviews
10% Mixed
1 Review
10% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
71
80% Positive
8 Reviews
10% Mixed
1 Review
10% Negative
1 Review

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88
Jun 24, 2016
Best of all: you don't have to wait until a concluding set piece for To to prove his prowess as a storyteller.
By Simon Abrams FULL REVIEW
80
Jun 23, 2016
When the tension finally does break, the movie goes a little nuts, in venerable Johnnie To tradition. The elaborate, largely slow-motion multifloor action climax is as audacious as anything he has staged and filmed.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
80
Jun 23, 2016
Even during the gunfight, this always remains a character piece: a thoughtful, imaginative movie about stubbornly authoritarian professionals, protecting their territories.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
75
Jun 24, 2016
After an hour of slow burn simmer, Three culminates in a six-minute set piece that’s among the most memorable action scenes of the year.
By Michael Snydel FULL REVIEW
75
Jun 24, 2016
Just like To’s characters all have a little something to learn from each other, Three is a master class in how movies can be as unique and infinite as the people who make them.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW
60
Jun 22, 2016
The veteran Hong Kong director makes his audience wait for the promised fireworks, and Three’s flimsy premise never quite captures the grounded realism of Drug War or Election, or the visual flourish of Exiled or Vengeance.
By James Marsh FULL REVIEW
30
Jun 24, 2016
70 odd minutes of medical tragedy and cops matching wits with criminals devolves into incongruously balletic gunplay accentuated with CGI blood effects so terrible Sam Peckinpah is doing cocaine in his grave. It’s a weirdly calamitous tonal shift, erasing the scant goodwill we’d felt to this point and putting Three down for the count once and for all.
By Pete Vonder Haar FULL REVIEW

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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings
6.7
67% Positive
4 Ratings
33% Mixed
2 Ratings
0% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 6 User Ratings
6.7
67% Positive
4 Ratings
33% Mixed
2 Ratings
0% Negative
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Production Company Media Asia Films, Milky Way Image Company, Shanghai Hairun Film & TV Production
Release Date Jun 24, 2016
Duration 1 h 28 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards

Asian Film Critics Association Awards
• 4 Nominations
Guangzhou Student Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Shanghai International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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