Well sometimes it does make sense to check on the movies before I watch them. I would have tried to get my hands on the TV show this is based on or rather followed up on. Not that it doesn't work on its own! I'd argue it does, but then again, I cannot yet say how I would have felt having the background knowledge of the show beforehand.
Having said all that, it is interesting to see Chow Yun Fat in a younger version. Even in the Killer (the very first one I saw with him) and Hard Boiled he seemed more grown up than in this. Or maybe I'm a bit sentimental considering those movies. This one has quite some violence and quite a lot of story to pack into the running time. It still all makes sense, but it also is packed with almost no time to breathe (the viewer does not have that luxury)
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