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Exiled

Exiled

2006
Suspense/Thriller, Crime
1h 50m
Set just around the time of Macau's reversion to the Chinese government, it concerns a group of hit men who come together when their boss orders a hit on one of them... (IMDB Comments)

Exiled

2006
Suspense/Thriller, Crime
1h 50m
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Avg Percentile 61.21% from 356 total ratings

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Rated 13 Sep 2011
45
29th
Basically a western, with a group of renegade gunfighters struggling to retain a sense of honour in a changing world. I liked certain individual parts - the stylized action sequences, the use of music, the more reflective moments in the middle part of the film (reminiscent of Kitano's "Sonatine") - but for me it didn't work as a whole. The plot was too disjointed and more character development was needed.
Rated 13 Sep 2010
80
84th
Anthony Wong leads a great cast of Hong Kong veterans in Johnnie To's homage to westerns in general and The Wild Bunch in particular. It's a fantastically stylish Triad/Crime thriller that hits all the familiar themes of honor, loyalty and brotherhood and has several nods to Peckinpah's masterpiece throughout. Awesome gun fights and heroic bloodshed.
Rated 20 Feb 2022
65
27th
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Rated 30 Nov 2021
5
73rd
it's a little more conventionally bromantic than his very best work but it may be his most emotionally direct, purely elegiac film, something like a spaghetti western by way of takeshi kitano. so much history is expressed through glance and gesture and posture, and there are those eccentric to touches everywhere: the door spinning in the air, the photo booth, the gang flipping a coin to decide where to go or collecting a friendly cop buddy on the road.
Rated 15 Oct 2020
85
59th
Viewed October 14, 2020. Purely, aggressively visual; everything recedes in deference to To's movement, pace and sense of orchestrated chaos.
Rated 11 Feb 2018
70
73rd
Great, really great gangster film. Something about the film touches me in the strangest, almost romantic way.
Rated 21 Jun 2016
67
37th
first half was GREAT , the other one was ........ stupidity. but i enjoyed it.
Rated 20 Feb 2016
10
50th
Star Rating: ★★★
Rated 02 Feb 2016
3
32nd
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Rated 13 May 2013
80
85th
Brilliant ballet of faces, bullets, guns and movements, in the kind of action movie that takes filmmaking seriously to the point of being condemned as style over substance -- actually, that's why it's so good.
Rated 14 Aug 2012
85
73rd
A really exceptional gangster film, showing the structure of it, rather than any individual.
Rated 30 May 2011
85
90th
Terrific.
Rated 27 May 2011
60
12th
A highly stylized action film that falls short mostly to the cliched and under developed plot that lost it's steam two-thirds of the way in.
Rated 23 Feb 2011
62
40th
Greatly stylized gun porn that doesn't make any sense appeals to me... Like, when 10+ people manage to shoot/not shoot each other, during the time it takes for a Red Bull (prominently featured throughout) to fall, once thrown in the air. Otherwise, it's somehow pretty atmospheric in its own way whilst blatantly ripping off dozens of westerns and kind of, well, being not too original. Nice camera work and bloodshed always makes my day, though
Rated 08 Nov 2010
30
78th
"Johnnie To's Exiled is a flabbergasting spectacle of kaleidoscopic violence that abstractly appraises codes of masculine honor." - Ed Gonzalez
Rated 07 Jul 2010
75
30th
Exiled is a film at odds with itself. On one hand it's a stylish, over the top Hong Kong gangster film, on the other it's a melancholy movie about friendship and the past, but for the most part these two sections compliment each other well. There's a lot of familiarity here right across the board, with a none-too-original plot and a cast of familiar HK crime genre actors, but Exiled does just enough to rise above the glut of HK crime sagas with some good performances around the intricate gunplay
Rated 07 Apr 2010
76
64th
Proof positive that the Mexican Standoff doesn't necessarily belong to Mexico, Italy, or the American West. The film begins with a bang, but seems to lose steam about halfway through (probably because the added sentimentality doesn't jive well with the tone established by everything else). Despite its flaws, the excellent camerawork and commitment to style makes this a keeper.
Rated 10 Mar 2010
60
22nd
Generic Johnnie To triad flick kinda left me in the dust plot-wise (there were a lot of "wait, who are these guys?" moments), though it has the expected pleasure of balletic bullet-play recorded with silky camera movements. These films might be better served with an opening scrawl, ala Star Wars, or something that gets dim bulbs like me up to speed.
Rated 15 Jan 2010
60
30th
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.
Rated 28 Jun 2009
86
71st
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.
Rated 26 Apr 2008
70
57th
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.
Rated 30 Jan 2008
72
49th
Decidedly more cliched than it should be, but very well-executed atmospherically
Rated 18 Dec 2007
74
57th
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Rated 07 Dec 2007
40
24th
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.

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