Johnny To has struck a fine balance between theme exploration, artistry, and action, giving us a movie to appreciate and think about, in addition to getting adrenalin flowing.
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08/23/07
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Exiled (2007)
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Reviews Counted:60
Fresh:49
Rotten:11
Average Rating:7.2/10
Consensus: Exiled has non-stop action, tension and style -- making it an excellent summer action movie. Johnnie To brings beautiful scenery and camerawork to the film, enhancing the action even more.
Theatrical Release:Aug 31, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: For the first time since The Mission in 1999, Anthony Wong (Infernal Affairs) and Francis Ng (Infernal Affairs 2) once again team up with Johnnie To and his regulars Roy Cheung (Infernal Affairs... [More]
Starring: Anthony Wong, Francis Ng, Roy Cheung, Lam Suet
Director: Johnnie To, Cheng Siu Keung
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Reviews for Exiled
If you’ve never seen a Johnnie To crime picture, Exiled is a simple, stylish, and utterly delightful introduction.
08/16/07
Top CriticAn acquired taste with its quirky camaraderie and forced humor.
08/13/07
A great opportunity to find out why fans value [To's] work so highly.
08/13/07
It has about it the feeling of a Sergio Leone spaghetti western.
07/04/07
offers no decent characters, crawls along and often doesn’t make sense – it’s simply a mechanism to deliver a gun battle every 20 minutes. Those shootouts are good, just not good enough to stop you looking at your watch.
06/15/07
A much better showcase for his talents
06/15/07
What's Cantonese for "badass"? It fits adjectivally with this very enjoyable action thriller with a bracing touch of political satire, from Johnny To
06/15/07
An ultra-violent riff on Western genre conventions by way of the East, the film adds little new to To’s efficiently bloody oeuvre, but it’s great fun.
06/15/07
Stylish tough guy mayhem that looks great but drags its feet going nowhere new. Election still gets the vote for Johnny To's best film.
06/15/07
Saved by set-piece action.
06/15/07
With not enough balls to be fun, and not enough brain to be cerebral, there’s not much going on behind those pained Western expressions to entertain.
06/15/07
a moody crime drama that doubles as a revolutionary political allegory - ringing the changes on China's evolving reunification even as it longs for a future that will return to the noblest values of the past.
06/15/07
It’s cool, thematically involving, knowing and sustained in its tension. Are you watching, Michael Mann?
06/14/07
...Exiled is compromised by the feeling one gets that Johnnie To has been watching too many westerns. Like in a Sergio Leone movie, all the characters try to strike iconic poses, clad with shades, munching on cigars, tilted gun in hand.
04/23/07
While certainly an entertaining enough romp through the world of bullet-defying tough guys, the movie could use perhaps 10% more action or 15% less chit-chat.
04/20/07
Exiled is compromised by the feeling one gets that Johnnie To has been watching too many westerns.
03/12/07
Johnnie To's Exiled is a flabbergasting spectacle of kaleidoscopic violence that abstractly appraises codes of masculine honor.
10/10/06
...heavy on style but disappointingly low on substance.
09/19/06
I keep waiting for the bottom to fall out of the Johnnie To Express, but his films just keep getting tauter, more economic, and flat-out better.
09/16/06
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