Narcotics agents use shady informant to take down drug cartel
This breakneck thriller from celebrated Hong Kong director Johnnie To masterfully mixes an intricate plot of double-crosses and deception among Chinese cops and criminals with stunning, purposeful action. Completely riveting – the film equivalent of a densely-plotted page-turner you can’t stop reading – Drug War continues upping the tension until its incredible shoot-out finale. Perhaps most impressively, though every scene is plot-driven and no attempt is made to develop the characters outside of their relation to the action, the film winds up with two unforgettable incarnations of archetypical characters – the obsessively driven cop and the crook who’ll turn on anyone to save his own skin.
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