The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
There are some thrilling sequences, to be sure, but the whole is definitely less than the sum of its parts.
China, Hong Kong · 2016
1h 39m
Director Ringo Lam
Starring Daniel Wu, Zhang Ruoyun, Zhang Jingchu, Amber Kuo
Genre Action, Crime, Thriller
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The chief security officer at a top-secret medical facility finds himself caught in an explosive battle when a young thief and his accomplices steal a groundbreaking curative medicine. After discovering the true origins of the medicine, the officer must decide who he can trust to protect the cure from falling into the wrong hands, and prevent an all-out war from bringing the city to its knees.
The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
There are some thrilling sequences, to be sure, but the whole is definitely less than the sum of its parts.
The New York Times by Glenn Kenny
This is a Hong Kong action picture in the classical mode, balancing mayhem with sentimentality, offering up bone-crunching and jaw-dropping set pieces, and pulling out all the stops for a finale teeming with stressful twists and turnabouts — not to mention kicks, punches, gunshots and explosions.
There’s really nothing new here. Still, it’s hard to deny the sporadically satisfying nostalgic appeal of this dash down memory lane.
Los Angeles Times by Robert Abele
Keeping up with the betrayals and shifting allegiances is more tedious than fun, while the simplistic moralizing about callous corporate greed, and the detours into tragedy, fall flat.
RogerEbert.com by Simon Abrams
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