Anh Hung Tran is like Paul Thomas Anderson in a sense of how ambitious, unorthodox and bold this film is. Difference is that after all those crazy whirls, back-flips and hyper-twists PTA always manages to gracefully land down, and Hung Tran falls on his face, hard, multiple times. I honestly loved this film and hated it at the same time, but one thing I know for sure - it's been a long while since I actually felt every minute of the film in my guts. Truly visceral experience.

Along similar lines to Oldboy in how the director twists genre conventions, this anti thriller is not for everyone, but it is an oddly compelling film; taking the genre film in unexpected directions, it is compelling and fresh in its approach. It is another Anh Hung Tran film which centres on emotional interactions and heartbreak; the only difference is that its about extreme violence, serial killers and Christian messiahs instead of sisterly relationships.

Beautiful music and images, but what the hell is going on?

A goddamn mess. Part Hong Kong cop thriller; a small part, which is unfortunate, because that might have been its best chance at success. A much larger part is a clichéd and stupid serial killer flick. And wrapped up in all this is a horribly labored religious allegory. It's an unsatisfying, confusing, boring mish-mash. There is a germ of a good idea here, and a few of the images are quite striking but I'm still tremendously let down.

Crap. This is a strange collection of scenes and themes linked together only by the director's fancy. An ex-cop suffering from PTS is employed by the world's largest pharma co. to look for the owner's son, a son who apparently cannot die like the cheerleader from heroes, in a Philipines and a HongKong where all locals speak only in heavily accented English.... amongst themselves....even in private. Avoid.

This movie screamed at me like, "I have no idea what I want to tell you!". There's scenes that seem to be meaningful but I think director thought, "If I do some weird shit and put some seriously f...ed up scenes together, maybe someone will interpret the scenes and connect them together so they think I did some serious artistic thing." Well... No.

Beautiful music, some good pictures and really great play by Hartnett. Whole plot very odd. Ending has some symbolic meanings but don't know how's that connected with this one?