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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★★★

  This movie understands that every scene is better with fog and wind machines, even if those scenes are set inside offices and hospitals

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★★★ 3

  Johnnie To recruits three of the hottest Hong Kong actresses of all time and has them team up on a ridiculously melodramatic superhero origin story and some absurdly violent gun fights/Wuxia wire action to stop an evil, baby-kidnapping supernatural monk overlord that lives in the sewer. The action alone is so visually kinetic and maximalist that it's honestly dizzying. A nonstop barrage of borderline slapstick choreography, wide-angle lens movement, fog machines, squibs/gore gags, bizarre angles, and colors. Has some of the most flying knives, women, and cameras I've ever seen in a movie. There are fights involving invisible characters, many chopped-off fingers/decapitations, newborns hurled into nails, and Maggie Cheug firing shotguns in leather.

  At one point in the middle of…

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  Review by Will Sloan ★★★★

  Pretty wild how many children died.

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  Review by Joshua Dysart ★★★★½ 9

  Tonight my wife and I discovered we are both equally sexually triggered by Michelle Yeoh in a red bodysuit. Don't ever tell me that a movie with mutant methane breathing underground dwelling cannibal children urinating on themselves out of fear because the heroes are about to blow them to shit with dynamite can't be sexy.

  Stand with Hong Kong, cause China ain't making flicks like this. (Also, democracy.)

  Call us, Michelle.

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★

  considerably less than the sum of its parts (this isn't my favorite type of To), but Maggie Cheung is iconic as the proto Faye Valentine bounty hunter who helped inspire "Irma Vep," there are enough extreme baby stunts here to make John Woo piss his newborn swaddlers, and the decapitations might be among the best in movie history. Michelle Yeoh is basically wasted for the first 80% of the film but she sparks to life just in time to ace the climactic battle against a bloody goop monster, and that's cinema enough to me.

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  Review by c h r i s 🎃 ★★★★★ 9

  Naughty. Are you laughing at me? 

  I just think Maggie Cheung, Michelle Yeoh, and Anita Mui are fucking powerful badass women with enough martial arts skills to demolish anything and everyone—save all the babies!— and I can’t wait to see this trio of babes in the sequel, Executioners. They are my heroines and bring so much chaotic energy into this genre-clusterfuck of a movie. My heart beat alittle extra every time Maggie rode off on her motorcycle in slow motion. Kill me softly. so much of that Hong Kong violence to make your eyes stuck on the screen. the heroic trio is sexy as hell, whimsical and completely marvelous; it definitely helped that the costumes were eye-catching and the set design was almost…

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  Review by Bryan Espitia ★★★★ 6

  The ideal movie: makes no sense, looks great, led by three iconic women. Can’t be overstated how good everyone looks, and how wild this is. Truly batty stuff.

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  Review by Filipe Furtado ★★★★

  I think this was the first Johnnie To film I saw when it come out on VHS here around 96, although it took me some 3 years to connect it to "the Milkyway guy". It remains on the very best films he did before setting on his own. Creative wire work (courtesy of Ching Siu Tung), heightened emotion, some intimations of horror, aggressive light/camera work derived from Tsui Hark, the Mui/Yeoh/Cheung trio on peak form and Anthony Wong going craaaaazy as the bad guy. Everything one hopes from bonkers HK filmmaking. Greatest superhero film ever made.

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  Review by Rafael "Parker!!" Jovine ★★★★ 12

  Action! - Johnnie/Ringo's Hong Kong Actions: In The Mood For King To's Sweeping Realism

  Michelle Yeoh, Maggie Cheung, and Anita Mui are three badass martial arts fighters with magical powers granted by the wuxia gods in this pastiche of the superhero genre and quirky but fun characters, with the big boss at the end looking like something out of a Sam Raimi film. All three of our protagonists are fantastic, each bringing their own distinct character traits to the table and successfully delivering them while also catching the many tones of the film.

  Johnnie To's return to the martial arts genre is a triumph, with just the right amount of kitsch and some very amazing and fun action sequences. At…

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  Review by Lou (rhymes with wow!) ★★★★

  If only the MCU/DCU movies were a bit more like this Johnnie To directed, Tony Ching produced, superhero wuxia, then I would be more inclined to actually watch them.

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  Review by comrade_yui

  literally the most badass film you will ever fucking see. western movies can't hold a fucking candle to how insane and brutally violent this gets

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  Review by laird ★★★★

  King Hu's Joel Schumacher's Dark Knight Rises.