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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786305034469
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 630503446X
Label: Tai Seng
Manufacturer: Tai Seng
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Tai Seng
Release Date: July 28, 1998
Running Time: 125 minutes
Sales Rank: 149607
Studio: Tai Seng
Theatrical Release Date: 1998
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Rating:  -
First-rate Taiwanese drama about the tainted politics of the island. Despite having two leads from Hong Kong, this is not a Hong Kong movie. Mak's taut direction moves the well-thought-out script along in a compelling and gritty fashion, and the drama never slackens. Andy Lau plays a righteous cop trying to track down proof of the corruption; he looks good here, but he is no eye-candy (for once). But Lau is upstaged here by a staggering Tony Leung Kar-fai of "The Lover" fame (no relation with ... Read More
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What a waste of money and a waste of time watching this badly directed mess.
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Michael Mak makes very intense movies. He also incorporates a lot of human internal struggles, although not so much in this one.
Island Of Greed is about Taiwan's very tainted politics. In interviews Mak is very assured of the realism. It shows through the story, as some events are really familiar. But it's the movie-making, the story-telling, the actions that make this unforgetable. Incidentally, the current mayor of Taipei Ma Ying-Jiu is known to have done something like this.
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This movie tells about a conflict between a powerful gang leader (Leung) and the police detective (Andy Lau) and his team. Leung's and Lau's characters struggle throughout the movie (lots of action) and at the end, we see that a gang leader is not as cold blooded as he seems. There is coarse language, violence, and some pornography in the movie but the message of the story is strong...
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