I'm pretty much okey with cliche ridden stylistic action extravaganza. If -To- has at least kept the basic plot or characters intact to some degree I would have bought it. Thinking that Exiled is submitted for oscars as the best foreign language film it seems like a joke.

So filled with machismo and fatalism and gunplay, there's little room for anything else. If you're okay with that, this is a film for you.

Pretty violent.

Decidedly more cliched than it should be, but very well-executed atmospherically

Never a particularly interesting or noteworthily exciting film, but thanks to its consistent style and delightful gunplay, mixed with To's more or less empathetic drawing of his tough, but vulnerable characters, Exiled please from start to end.

Looks like Seijun Suzuki! I would give even more than 86, but the last sequence is way over the top; with the baby, the redbull propaganda and stuff.

Johnny To cranks up the stylized violence to 99 but also includes the most ridiculous movie cliches ever. The entire movie is a pretty obvious homage to spaghetti westerns so the implausible action is excusable because of this. However the acting is so hammy at times that it's hard to ignore. You have various Hong Kong action luminaries mugging for the camera at every opportunity and there is even blatant Red Bull product placement.