Exiled

...very enjoyable action thriller with a bracing touch of political satire, from Johnny To, a maestro of the Asian martial arts genre...

...the locale is primarily a clever way to make a Western without going too far into the past, and To takes full advantage.

...let me simply say that enormous numbers of gangsters shoot enormous numbers of bullets at one another...

Johnnie To's Exiled is a flabbergasting spectacle of kaleidoscopic violence that abstractly appraises codes of masculine honor.

...To wrestles with a host of issues not uncommon to Hong Kong crime film fans—loyalty, honor, fate and courage—though he is careful not to overly wallow in what previous films forged as a kind of Triad Taoism.