Like any good sequel, this film takes what is familiar with the original's concept -- in this case, an internecine struggle for supremacy -- and deepens it.
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Triad Election (2007)
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Reviews Counted:46
Fresh:44
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.4/10
Consensus: Taking its cues from the Godfather series, Triad Election understands how a giddy mix of thrills and gunplay can make for compelling cinema.
Theatrical Release:Apr 25, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: Wo Sing is Hong Kong’s oldest Triad Society. Under the leadership of its current Chairman Lok, it has grown to become the most feared crime organization in the city. Jimmy (Louis Koo), a... [More]
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Reviews for Triad Election
Top CriticJohnny To's superb, graceful new Triad Election actually has quite a bit in common with Francis Coppola's Godfather trilogy.
05/24/07
... exhibit A in the case for the Hong Kong gangster film as the new genre standard.
06/14/07
The exposition is perfectly balanced with bloody action and muscular set-pieces.
10/26/07
The film's violence erupts in rare, staccato bursts, all the more horrifying for coming out of nowhere.
08/24/07
Top Criticexpertly captures the battle between old-school gangster pathology and the new cutthroat tactics of the corporate criminal
04/26/07
Triad Election is slow-burning and sedate, even dull in stretches. But it deserves credit for presenting such a courageous critique of the Chinese system, which combines the worst aspects of official corruption and mob lawlessness.
05/31/07
Top CriticThe surfaces gleam as luxuriously in Johnnie To's exemplary gangster thriller Triad Election as those in a similarly slicked-up Hollywood film, but the blood on the floor here seems stickier.
04/25/07
Top CriticFurther proof that Johnnie To is one of the medium's most accomplished directors.
04/26/07
Johnnie To's Election 2 is distinguished by intelligence, wit and violence but is lightly wounded by some ill-fitting moments.
04/24/07
Top Critic[Director To's] talent for documentary-style realism and navigating complex political systems sets him apart, though his nationalism puts him squarely in the mainstream.
07/12/07
Top CriticThe director rejuvenates the genre by connecting the dots between a criminal subculture and a much bigger sociological picture. He’s finally given HK cinema its very own Godfather.
05/12/07
Reveals [director] To as a master of lean, close-quarters action.
06/07/07
Drips with a thick, Stygian darkness, but also offers violence that's too explicit and willfully perverse to be thoughtfully disturbing. . . . a little too overwrought, too operatic after its regal predecessor.
11/19/07
For all its emulation of American gangster films, Triad Election is first and foremost a portrait of Hong Kong, painted in great swaths of black and red.
10/17/06
Election 2 is equal in precision to its predecessor, exuding a perpetual sense of danger.
09/03/06
Into a season of Hollywood blockbusters, this import arrives with the impact of a high-velocity bullet.
06/08/07
The movie is familiar on several levels but also has its own engaging style.
05/19/07
Top CriticThis disturbing social order, both inside and outside the Triad, is the series’ defining characteristic. Because of its emphasis, this installment satisfies, even if another sequel feels inevitable.
10/07/06
Like many Hong Kong mob movies, Triad Election
05/31/07
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