FOUR STARS
Although there are many critics who have despised it, this film about a man who decides to avenge the death of his little sonnarrated without words (there are no dialogues, as is) and pure movement and action, it has some of the most spectacular and creative sequences that have been seen in recent years. Not only that, but he manages to transmit from gestures, from the body and the
moving face, the state of anguish, hatred and despair of its protagonist (Kinnaman is very good, really).
But ultimately the melodramatic starting point, frequent in the honkonese cinema, is the excuse to play with all possible elements to the extreme. There are moments in which revenge results in a very dark humor that is welcome, as if Woo himself wanted to play to see what is the extreme of what is plausible in a cinematographic story. A demonstration of great film craftsmanship.
