International Security Affairs agent Jon is on a dangerous mission to escort a criminal scientist to another country. En route, a member of his team turns out to be a traitor and shoots Jon in the head while kidnapping the scientist. When Jon wakes up in the hospital, a doctor tells him that within weeks, the bullet in his brain will cause complete paralysis. Jon returns to Beijing to see his mother, who confesses that Jon has a brother in Malaysia who was raised by his father, a gambler. Jon takes a flight to Malaysia to find his brother, Yeung. On the plane he forms a bond with Dr. Kan, who promises to look into possible treatments for his condition. However, when they arrive, Yeung tries to kidnap the doctor and when Jon intervenes, he's also taken hostage. The two soon realize they're brothers, and decide to work together in order to keep the criminals behind the kidnappings from reinfecting the world of a disease long thought cured.
You May Also Like
Reviews
hyped garbage
There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes
This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.
This is a action movie with a good enough budget for a Hong Kong action flick. But the primary focus of this movie is the action. When it comes down to it, it's basically one of those trademark Hong Kong cop movie with one brother who is a cop and the other who is on the other side of the law but because of the situation they are in. They end up teaming up although they have different reasons for fighting, even if the villains they are against is the same. The two brothers are played by Jay Chou and Nicholas Tse. Nicholas Tse who tries way too hard to show off his acting chops in this and goes over the top to the point I couldn't take it seriously. The thing is the main slow down of this movie is when it tries to throw a bunch of cliché Hong Kong action flick elements into the story. Which I just couldn't take seriously at all. Sometimes this works but not this time around. This flick started out kinda promising but it just started to go all over the place without it being immersive or all that entertaining. This flick basically tries uber hard to be super cool with characters trying super cool and that includes the villains as well. The thing is this movie has a lot of action in it, even if some of the action sequences and character decisions don't make much sense. It's a action movie that has no memorable action scenes and vapid for the most part. Despite all the shootouts and explosions I was bored with this one.4/10
Man, it's a common problem with some of these large HK productions - that it wants to have everything.The story behind the movie is basically a terrorist plot to infect. But then it adds long lost brother relationship. And adds a corrupted Malaysian cop plot. Add a female doctor to kidnap. Man, overboiled.There are some good action scene but mostly in the beginning shots in Jordan.The scene on the train shifted from action to famly drama. Dante likes to do that. But it always takes me out of the movie.And Jay is too stoic when go along side Nicholas. Sigh...
I give a high rating on this movie simply because the story line, the cast and overall of the action scenes are great. Unlike Hollywood movies this movie shows humane side of depicting real life stories between brothers, parents-kid, bad guy-good guy. Nicholas and Jay are perfect to acting on this movie they both bring out their best for their characters, none the less the supporting actors like Carl Ng and the one who's acting as their father, the villains are really evil.The plot actually is predictable but what makes me to like this movie is the director brings out his best to show real action scenes with all the explosions and the no-slow-motion (thank goodness) fighting scenes which I find is really good point. Nowadays they tend to shoot fighting scenes with slow motion makes the fighting look not real.The ending is somehow cannot be guessed not about the virus plan but more about the family and the brothers overall it's not such a happy ending but they all get what they wanted. People live in slump tend to be in a bad world because of the situation and still they love their children whole heartily is might be the morale message of this movie.
Who said an action movie needs a story at all. Just throw in some martial experts, some guns, one or two big villains, a few good cops a few corrupt ones, and don't forget some innocent bystanders - every thing will work out on its own. It almost does, the action moves so fast you don't have the time to stop and realize nothing made sense here. While watching I simply had a vague awkward feeling but once the movie ended and I tried to figure out what I was seeing it really downed on me. It was simply a flimsy excuse for a script. Our hero might be looking for the tiniest needle in a huge haystack, never fear, fate will throw it right in front of his feet before he even starts searching. Coincidents are not things that happen every now and again, it's the way Dante Lam's universe operate, it's the solution for every problem that might hold the pace of his movie an extra second. So the action scenes do work, the melodrama is exactly as one would expect, but if you really want to enjoy this one don't stop to think about it.
Top Streaming Movies
