Retiring triad boss gets word that some one has put a hit out on him in the hopes of getting the millions he holds in trust for the gang. Unsure of where to turn, he calls a friend who brings together a group of young guns to both protect and ferret out who's behind the plot. (Its more complicated than that but its good enough not to give any spoilers.)
I find it hard to discuss this film without giving anything away. The problem (with the film and with talking about it) is that there are a great many twists and turns, so many in fact that I wondering when something wasn't going to have a flip side. I don't mind twists and turns in a movie but there has to be a limit as to how many you can have in any movie, especially when a good number of them happen in the final fifteen minutes. Its as if the writer (who's also one of the directors) didn't trust his material and cast enough and had to keep twisting things to keep us watching. I don't know why considering that the cast is a sterling collection of old and young actors who are probably good enough to read the phone book and keep us enthralled.
To be honest I didn't care for this film all that much, its not that its bad, rather it just doesn't trust its cast to sell what is really a run of the mill story, instead the need to spice it up gets in the way.
Worth a look if you run across it on cable or if you can borrow it from a friend.
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