BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Bumpy Chip It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

chenjianjx Another action gay movie Chow starred in. And this time the gayness is more "subtle" than his previous action movies made in Hong Kong. The plot is just so so. Not very impressive. What stands out is the tone of this movie. Everybody talks and acts in a violent way. Kind of cool. The culture thing is perfect. They act like both Chinese and Americans, without stupid stereotyping.

dworldeater The Corrupter is a pretty good, but not great action packed thriller starring HK legend Chow Yun Fat. This is the second English language US production for Chow Yun Fat and he gives an excellent performance. He shows more range and depth than his Hollywood debut The Replacement Killers and easily compliments the complexities of the storyline and his character. As excellent as Chow Yun Fat is, his supporting cast does not perform at the same level. For the most part, the support cast is decent. The biggest problem here is the horribly miscast Mark Wahlberg, who opposite Chow Yun Fat was terrible. If Mark Wahlberg was to make this now, he would probably nail it. At the time he did not have the acting chops for a character as complex as this and is not rugged enough to convincingly play a NYC cop, rookie or not. His performance was wooden and looks silly when he tries to act tough. If he could refrain from sounding like Michael Jackson when he talks that would have been a step in the right direction. Flaws and criticisms aside, I enjoy the film. The film looks great and is packed with tons of gritty, bloody action with a stylish 90's rap score to boot.

Juan_from_Bogota Really intense action, entertaining! This movie shows some great action scenes, really intense sometimes, that makes you get deep attention to it, but this attention is primarily focused in most part of the movie trying to understand the why and where of all the events shown; in a good part of the film you see great actions scenes, but don't understand why are happening!. A great entertaining action films about one of the hardest challenges that a cop can face!ABOUT THE MOVIE: In this movie, about an Asian cop that works cases on Chinatown - New York (Nick Chen - Chow Yun Fat), and a White Cop that strictly followed the academy instructions that is suddenly assigned to that jurisdiction (Danny Wallace - Mark Wahlberg); Chen didn't liked this new partner. They are somewhat close to the mafia of Chinatown leaded by Henry Lee (Ric Young) and Benny Wong (Kim Chan); while working,some police of internal affairs follow Nick and Danny to find corrupt relationship between them and the mafia, this cop unit is leaded by Schabacker (Paul Ven-Victor). The main objective of Nick is to take down a gang of young boys that is very violent and is terrifying the neighborhood, the Fukiense Dragons leaded by Bobby Vu (Byron Mann), Chen and Danny manages to infiltrate to this band trough Jack (Jon Kit Lee), a boy new in the gang and whose girlfriend was protected in change of information. Trough the mission, Danny has to face the shadow of his father Sean Wallace, who was a corrupt police officer (Brian Cox). In this movie you can get involve in one of the most hard works that a police officer can have, in a difficult and violent place, with intense racism (against people different from Asian race), violent gangs, illegal immigrants, drugs, guns, great drug dealers and bosses, prostitution, killings, and of course, the cancer of our century - corruption.6/10

jdburkitt Wahlberg was meant to play this role, which may be his best yet. It will be a cop movie classic, esp. with the realistic portrayal of Chinatown (I have lived near there in San Francisco for 14 years). Brutal, but honest, it shows the ubiquitous racism of all races. The Chinese Triads still exist in sex and drug smuggling. The "sweatshops" are somewhat better now, but the simpleminded racism still exists on all sides. Despite the usual snooty superciliousness of most critics, I thought the characters were quite well developed building up to a human aspect that the audience identifies with. It is true in San Francisco that cops in my city surrender to the inevitability of street crime in the poorer sections of the city.