To’s odd anti-action structural experiment takes too long to build up a self-contained story set in a hospital ward as doctors, cops and criminals try to outwit one another psychologically, that when the action comes, it feels like a stylistic distraction.
A violent climactic showdown between cops and drug dealers redeems this part-intriguing, part-draggy work by Johnnie To.
A film of two halves – the first uninteresting, and the second intriguing in this flawed Johnnie To drama.
There’s not much action in this, but To develops a mostly engrossing triad flick about infighting and power plays.
More of what we have come to expect from Johnnie To operating in the crime-thriller territory, but now with a French lead in tow.
Eternality Tan 