Now I’m as big a fan of Tony Leung Chu-Wai and Chow Yun Fat as the next guy. But unless you’re really, really, really into hard-boiled Chinese cinema, or you just have to see it because you’ve heard of it so many times, then save yourself the two plus hours. That’s right, this movie is two plus hours long. And there’s a lot of repetition. That’s right, there’s a lot of repetition. A lot. Of repetition. That’s right. Repetition. I think there may even be parts where they used the same footage twice. That is not good. I could recommend this movie if they cut it by forty-five minutes because there are several good sequences, and like I said, TLC and CYF are great. If you’re at a point in your life where you really need some action-heroism, just rent Die Hard or Lethal Weapon. If you’re going for a truly arthouse take on yakuza violence, see Wong Kar-Wai’s Fallen Angels or Takeshi Kitano’s Sonatine or any Seijun Suzuki film instead.