Actors: Honglei Sun, Louis Koo
Director: Johnnie To
Drug War almost seems propagandistic in its opening moments, as hordes of police and surveillance converge on outmatched drug traffickers. Considering the penalty for drug trafficking in China is death (and this is explicitly mentioned in the first ten minutes of the film), it seems like it might be a good idea to make a film where drug trafficking is shown as an impossible endeavor. This tone shifts somewhere in the film, and that's what elevates this from a basic action/thriller type film into something quite a lot better. It's still a genre film, but a high point of said genre. I wish sometimes that American films could come unmoored in the way that this one does.
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