Comwayon
A Disappointing Continuation
Mathilde the Guild
Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
Married Baby
Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?
Dave from Ottawa
A misunderstanding in a bar puts propane salesman Kent 'Fatty' Cheng smack in the middle of a gang war between Vietnamese blackmailers and Chinese mercenaries. Mercenary Simon Yam, in one of his trademark crazy-eyed psycho roles, blames Cheng for starting the events that lead to his brother's death. His revenge against Cheng's family fills the second half of the film. This film is not for the queasy. Unlike most HK thrillers with their stylized fighting, the violence here comes suddenly and with shocking brutality. The fact that most of the film takes place at night in dark labyrinthine places - warehouses, construction sites - gives the film an effective nightmarish atmosphere as Cheng tries to flee from the demonic Yam.Also present in this movie is a darkly absurdist comedic sensibility that lets the violent action and the characters go way too far and keep on going, until the effect is almost sickening and yet still entertaining.
lastliberal
Fatty (Kent Cheng) catches his wife (Lily Li) with another man; on their anniversary, no less. He gets drunk and hires a hit man to take care of her; only there is a slight miscommunication over what he wants.Now, the gang leader (Lung Wei Wang) wants $800,000 for the job they did. Lots of chop socky and blood is spilled in the attempt to collect. Rival gangs get involved and the blood flows freely.When Ching Fung's (Simon Yam) brother Wah (Sui Wah Fok) dies, he vows revenge on Fatty and his family. Fung tortures Fatty in the worst possible way and even kills his own partners as he goes psychotic after Fatty escapes.He and fatty have a fight to the death. It was magnificent.
EVOL666
RUN AND KILL is a pretty good HK action/drama with some notable scenes and performances. Basic story: All is well for "Fatty" until one day he catches his wife boning some other guy. Fatty goes to the local bar and gets all tore-up, where he meets a hooker who offers to set him up with someone who will "take-care" of Fatty's problem. Fatty unknowingly agrees ("unknowingly" because at this point he's too f'ed up to know what he's talking about...) and some guys murder Fatty's wife and her lover. Everything goes down-hill for Fatty at this point - and this is where RUN AND KILL starts to take off.All-in-all a good film with excellent performances by Simon Yam and Kent Cheng especially. Plenty of action and a decent story to keep the film going, but not quite as violent as I had expected. Other than 1 or 2 "rough" scenes, RUN AND KILL plays out as a pretty straight-faced crime/action drama, that to me almost doesn't deserve it's "notorious" Cat III status. The one scene that some will have issue with is the murder of Fatty's daughter, but anyone familiar with this genre of HK films will no doubt have seen worse in the past (notably THE UNTOLD STORY, EBOLA SYNDROME, etc...- there seems to be a lot of child murder in these off-the-wall HK films...). A good action film that's definitely worth a look - if you're looking for a blood-bath or horror film, this isn't it. 7/10
fertilecelluloid
This Billy Tang vehicle is relentlessly grim and relentlessly entertaining. I love that.Fatty (Kent Chang) accidentally orders a hit on his wife and creates a huge debt for himself that must be repaid. Since Fatty can not repay it, others repay it instead -- with their lives.Watching a fat guy stress and sweat and fall in a blubbering heap is a highly entertaining experience that must be seen to be believed. The torching of a little girl by super-villain Simon Yam (in a superbly over-the-top performance) pushes the boundaries of on-screen depictions and the gloriously violent finale, where Fatty becomes an unstoppable monster, really delivers the chills.Danny Lee makes an appearance as -- what else? -- a cop, but he's as useful as pockets on a singlet and never manages to put so much as a dent in the gory proceedings.Director Tang was on a roll with this, RED TO KILL and DR. LAMB.This is mostly an action pic, but it also falls into the horror category simply because it doesn't know when to quit being grotesque. Love that, too.
