A comic, frantic take on crime sagas in the vein early Coen brothers movies. I cannot say I totally understood all of the plot’s innumerable turns or got many of the jokes, but nonetheless this was a blast to watch.
A gangster comes to town posing as the new governor only to run into the local crime lord. Except that he may not be a gangster, or may not be posing as the new govenor, or may not be up against a local crime lord.
The movie is carried by solid cinematography, great pacing, and too many outstanding performances to list, but especially Chow Yun Fat and and Jiang Wen. This made it easy to overlook the fact that I stopped following who was doublecrossing who for the last 30 minutes.
