Some truly amazing fight choreography which threw Donnie Yen into a completely different style then he's normally used to. Some personal favourites seemed to leak through, but nonetheless good fight scenes. Special effects however were not that special but were masked well enough to let you believe it for the first 3 seconds.

Donnie Yen is charismatic in his role and Sammo Hung looks like a fat Chinese Santa Claus. The emotional interaction between the characters tends to be rather contrite. You don't watch a movie like this for talking but for the action. Kill Zone is great in that sense because it's so over the top. The choreography is fairly eclectic incorporating multiple fighting styles such as Brazilian jiu-jitsu, kali/silat, kung fu, and kickboxing. This would have been so much better with a writer though.

Ends on a high note. Seriously, that ending is great, and Sammo Hung is the greatest. The movie itself isn't that hot when Donnie Yen isn't fighting someone, though.

Great fight scenes with a decent plot with some interesting thoughts about the ends justifying the means and such

A rather entertaining piece of Hong Kong-noir, with Donnie Yen adding his usual coolness (although I prefer his more arrogant fighting style as Yip Man).. A few interesting choices on behalf of the director, a bad-ass ultra fast henchman with a Tanto (Jacky Wu!) plus a few of the classic noir-elements make this one fairly watchable in spite of its weaknesses and thin plot

The movie's powerhouse static-shot ending almost makes up for the labyrinth, weighty rest of the movie. This is clearly a guy's film, and the film's emotional center - variations on the problem of modern fatherhood - would have been an excellent place to start a major Chinese boxing drama. Unfortunately, the editing and dialogue make the story just shy of laughably trite. Deserves props for the fight sequences, of course.

the fights are good but sillier than ip man; the ratio of story:fights is disappointing considering how bad the story is

I loved the action sequences in S.P.L., they were beautifully choreographed and there are a lot of them you wont forget. Something else you wont forget? How about that crazy ending? Completely awesome.

The violence is satisfyingly bloody and a nice yang to the yin of fractured father/son relationships that run throughout the film.

Style over substance, totally contrived, but I was entertained the entire time. And that ending.

A triumphant return to the spotlight by Sammo Hung, who is just as fast as ever.

Some great action and cinematography. Plot's a wee bit thin but it does at least try to get across a positive moral message, I'd say it succeeds. And damn, what an ending.

Poor acting with a weakass storyline. Sure the action scenes were nice, but the rest of what they called a movie was utter crap.

I fucking love Jacky Wu.