A young woman from China allows herself to be trafficked to Italy so that she can find her sister. When her sister is not where she thought she would be, she begins her search. Eventually she ends up hooking up with the son of the man who is supposed to have gone off with the sister.
Atypical mix of Hong Kong martial arts and Euro crime films is something to make you sit up and take notice. The mix of action and crime drama makes for a film that isn’t like anything else out there, and which probably shouldn’t work, yet some how it does. This film hooks you early with an amazing action set piece and then just drags you along.
The reason the film works is the endless drive forward that the search for the siter brings. There is an urgency. We know early on that the bad guys are bad. And some ot the good guys are not so good either. I love that we don't have cookie cutter characters.
Certainly, the martial arts help. They are going to sit up and make you say “hello’ because there is brutality to them
that is severely lacking in modern action films, especially those from China. The action is such
that I was emailing friends to tell them that they had to see this because the
action was going to blow their minds.
I really liked this film a great deal. I like the mix of
genres and cultures. I love that some one was thinking outside of the box and
was skilled enough to pull it off. Too often mixes like this crash and burn. This one doesn't. Just go with it's seemingly uneven pacing.
Forgive my lack of words
but I need to see this again to really find the words to express how
much I liked this film.
A must see.
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