To be honest, it's not even average. The editing, the pacing, the myriad of unnecessary scenes that lead to nowhere, it all reeks of a movie that could have been great, if it had been longer or better composed. Oh, and the story...I don't expect an action movie to have a great story, but this...I guess it fails because it tries to be, for nearly the entirety of the movie, a crime (cop?) drama. And as drama, it's atrocious. Score is high as is because of the enjoyable action scenes. Donnie Yen is a pleasure to watch, at least as far as martial arts go. Which is a bit of a shame, consdering he already exhibited decent acting talent in Ip Man.
To be honest, it's not even average. The editing, the pacing, the myriad of unnecessary scenes that lead to nowhere, it all reeks of a movie that could have been great, if it had been longer or better composed. Oh, and the story...I don't expect an action movie to have a great story, but this...I guess it fails because it tries to be, for nearly the entirety of the movie, a crime (cop?) drama. And as drama, it's atrocious. Score is high as is because of the enjoyable action scenes. Donnie Yen is a pleasure to watch, at least as far as martial arts go. Which is a bit of a shame, consdering he already exhibited decent acting talent in Ip Man.