Two thumbs way down!

I found it pretty entertaining all the way though, Sammo hung was great to watch in various scenes, so was Jackie wu. the two final fight scenes were easily the best point of the film

I think SPL is considerably better than Flash Point. FP has a more satisfying ending but everything else in between is straight out of a bad Dolph Lundgren movie sitting at your local Blockbuster video shelf.

"Girl, I like penis."
- Lance Bass

The fighting was excellent! Donnie is talented when it comes to fight choreography, he knows what the audience wants. The long cuts look fantastic compared to hollywood editing MA fights until its unrecognisable.

That said the rest of the movie sucked. If the story was engaging the movie would have worked. Too bad all the great fighting is gone to waste on a crappy story. I think its the director's fault, a more capable director would have made this a good movie.

I guess you have to be Asian/Chinese to truly appreciate the excellence of this film. As much as this was advertised as action/crime drama/thriller film, this film was way deeper than just a few fight scenes.

The story is about karma, what the Chinese believes in. You have this group of cops who could never put a crime boss away, so they went the wrong way. Chan decided the swap evidence and intimidate witness to try to frame Wong, taking all his men down the dark path with him , and they all paid for the wrong doings with their lives. Ma came in as the guy who wanted to do things the right way, but got sucked into the dark side, and he too paid for it with his life. Wong's wrong doings also indirectly caused his wife and his only son's death. So like the quote in the movie, "God is fair. There are consequences for wrong doings".

I felt for the characters, particularly Chan's men and Ma, because they were sucked into the bad things. They were cops, they were supposed to uphold the law, not break them.

Too bad so many people only comment on the fight scenesand that the story stunk. In my opinion, the story was great and thought-provoking.

Honestly, the action scenes weren't even that good compared to other movies - very overhyped. And the directing was atrocious. There was a lot of bush-league lighting and shot selections. And oh yeah, the editing. These are normally things that don't factor into my rating / opinion of a movie, but they really stuck out.

I actually liked the story. But I don't think it was told effectively.

4/10


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