The Hollywood Reporter by Deborah Young
Where Guan excels is in straight dramatization.
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China · 2015
Rated PG-13 · 2h 14m
Director Guan Hu, Fei Zhenxiang
Starring Feng Xiaogang, Zhang Hanyu, Xu Qing, Kris Wu
Genre Action, Crime, Drama
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Many years ago, Mr. Six was a notorious gangster. One day Six's son, Xiaobo, is abducted by some wealthy young men after he scratches their precious Ferrari. Mr. Six realizes that he must do whatever it takes to get his son back, even if that means returning to the life he once inhabited.
The Hollywood Reporter by Deborah Young
Where Guan excels is in straight dramatization.
Screen International by Lee Marshall
Staying just on the serious side of funny, Feng’s Mr Six is a fine, savoury creation.
The New York Times by Nicolas Rapold
The baggy 137-minute story drowns out Mr. Feng’s assorted sharp moments with hoary family drama and clumsy plotting, and Li Yifeng is generic as Mr. Six’s son.
Scored to a beautiful, introspection-oriented saxophone score, Mr. Six surprises by attempting to delve behind Feng’s sometime-inscrutable facade, rather than pushing its leading man toward action.
The Seattle Times by Tom Keogh
A viewer might expect the film’s widescreen, busy images to fill with revenge-action sequences. But in its own way, Mr. Six is much more about a unique man adjusting an out-of-fashion personal code for a new type of crisis in the shadow of his mortality.
The Film Stage by Zhuo-Ning Su
Plotted with limited imagination and directed with atypical flatness, Mr. Six features a strong central performance and shares its humanistic concern with Hu Guan’s previous work but is nevertheless an artistic underachiever.
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