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An assassin who is fresh from his latest kill becomes stranded in an island, when he inadvertently befriends a female police officer. As the night progresses, the unspoken truth honored by the two sides of the law is broken. After the remains of a body that belonged to a drug lord and syndicate crime leader are found, chaos ensues and criminals ravage the once peaceful streets in a race against time to find the mysterious murderer that’s loose and out for blood.
Rated R | Length 89 minutes
Lam Suet | Hui Siu-Hung | Mark Cheng | Ken Lo | Ronald Cheng | Wu Jing | Kara Hui | Woon Ling Hau | Noriko Aoyama | Tam Kon-Chung | Alex Fong Lik-Sun | Chan Siu-Wah | Sam Kai-Sen Huang | Sammy Leung | Tenky Tin Kai-Man | Celina Jade | Buffalo Tang Tai-Wo | Jiang Baocheng | Chow Man-Wai | Mak Chi-Wai | Kou Zhan Wen | Heaven Ho Yat-Wah | Lai Chi-Wai | Mark Cheung Yiu-Fai | Chan Tat-Kwong | Tam Tin-Bo | Xueliang Zhu | Terry Lee Ji-Ming | Cheung Sing-Yuk | Siu Yin-Ming | Zhang Chi | Dang Shan-Peng | Ng Hau-Yiu | Chan Wing-Kuen | Chin Yiu-Wing | Alex Lee Yip-Kin | Shek Chi-Wing | Leung Han-Yuan | Jamie Wong Ching-Mei | Ng Pok-Yee | Leo Lai Ping-Kuen | Cheung Kwok-Hung | Lam Yat-Biu | Li Yang | Chen Xinqiang
Oh Legendary Assassin, I wanted to love you like a good throwback ‘80s era Hong Kong action flick, but you weren’t committed enough.
The martial arts action is pretty decent, though the end battle royale suffers from the Matrix effect where the director thought adding huge amounts of enemies would make it more epic. Instead it buries the action in a sea of mediocrity. I’d rather have seen the protagonist tee off on a half dozen or so henchmen in some well choreographed scenes than to see him mow down black-clad baddies like he was cutting grass. Just didn’t work well for me.
There’s also a lot of frivolous, semi-comedic crap that passes for story in-between the action set pieces. It was poorly timed and didn’t fit very well.
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