Election

A democratic election is taking place to determine the new leader of the Hong Kong triad: longtime gangster Lok, or ambitious moneyman Big D. No prize if you can guess who wins, and who gets pissed off.

Slow-moving but captivating film, with a race to recapture a sacred triad artifact and one quite good found-object fight scene. In fact, that last bit is so important it deserves its own category.

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Hak se wui (IMDB)

Wince : [*____]
Flinch : [****_]
Retch : [*____]
Gape : [****_]

Beerequisite : [*____]
Pornability : [*____]
Obscurity : [**___]
Explicability : [*****]

Scene I'd watch on endless loop: The spoon-eating scene. Or maybe those crates being rolled down the cliff.

Dog Bite Dog

Sometimes a guy gets off a hard day's work and just wants to get home without running into every damn delay and distraction the world can throw at him. Such is the case in this film, with the guy being a Cambodian assassin raised in a feral child-fighting pit, his work the assassination of a judge's wife, and the delays and distractions are members of the Hong Kong PD. After working his way through a fair number of these obstacles, the hit man earns the ire of one distraction in particular, who then tracks him down for revenge.

Featuring gritty urban landscapes, a highly stylized knife-fight, and the sort of found-object fu that you would expect from a gladiator-turned-hired killer.

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Dog Bite Dog (IMDB)

Wince : [**___]
Flinch : [****_]
Retch : [**___]
Gape : [***__]

Beerequisite : [*____]
Pornability : [*____]
Obscurity : [**___]
Explicability : [****_]

What I would do different: Having the true bad guy appear at the closing scene would have been a nice touch.

Things you probably won't see anywhere else:
* A Datsun! A DATSUN!!!
* "You got your cop blood in my hit-man blood!" "You got your hit-man blood in my cop blood!"
* A 24-hour dentist