The White Storm 2: Drug Lords

for a long while now asian action movies have been more ruthless, uninhibited and angry than most of their contemporary western counterparts, and herman yau's covertly scornful riff on the dark knight is no different. obviously a pleasure seeing andy lau as a duterte-sympathising batman and louis motherfuckin' koo in the joker role, but the unchecked, destructive machismo of their crowning chase scene casts everything before it in a remarkably ugly hue.