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Title: Drug War (2012)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Honglei Sun | ... | Captain Zhang (as Sun Honglei) | |
| Louis Koo | ... | Timmy Choi | |
| Yi Huang | ... | Yang Xiaobei (as Huang Yi) | |
| Yunxiang Gao | ... | Xu Guoxiang (as Gao Yunxiang) | |
| Wallace Chung | ... | Guo Weijun | |
| Guangjie Li | ... | Chen Shixong (as Li Guangjie) | |
| Tao Guo | ... | Senior Dumb (as Guo Tao) | |
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Jing Li | ... | Junior Dumb |
| Hoi-Pang Lo | ... | Birdie (as Lo Hoi Pang) | |
| Eddie Cheung | ... | Su (as Cheung Siu Fai) | |
| Ka Tung Lam | ... | East Lee (as Lam Ka Tung) | |
| Michelle Ye | ... | Sal | |
| Suet Lam | ... | Fatso (as Lam Suet) | |
| Ting Yip Ng | ... | Hatred (as Ng Yuk San) | |
| Philip Keung | ... | Darkie (as Keung Hon Man) | |
After losing control of his car and crashing into a local restaurant, a man loses consciousness on the street. Later, while working on a case, the police's anti-drug division captain, Zhang Lei (Honglei Sun), realizes that the man in the crash is drug lord Tian Ming (Louis Koo). In order to avoid the death penalty, Tian Ming helps the police put a stop to the entire drug trafficking circuit, but just as soon as the police are ready to make a large bust, Tian Ming makes a decision that shocks everyone involved. Written by Anonymous
Johnnie To seems to be one of the most adept directors working in Hong Kong today; in the recent fifteen years or so he's built for himself an impressive body of work, concentrating almost solely in the thriller genre. His films usually involve cops or gangsters, all of them equally tough, and his detailed plots inevitably involve lots of death, betrayal, and bloodshed.
DRUG WAR is no different; it's the third To film I've seen, and by far the best. This is a pulse-pounding thriller that moves exceptionally fast, requiring the viewer to pay close attention throughout in order to keep up with everything that transpires. To's requirement above all else is for ultra-realism, making this a low key and often subtle piece of filmmaking, and an exemplary example for Hollywood directors keen to make their wham-bang thrillers.
Louis Koo headlines the cast in an intriguing role as a leading drug dealer who's caught by the police and forced to help them bring down some even greater criminals. What this leads to is a unique and fresh-feeling storyline, one that's hard to predict throughout, with the emphasis almost entirely on suspense sequences. Most of the action is limited to the climax, which stages a tense shoot-out on an even more epic scale than the one in HEAT. It's great stuff indeed and the perfect end to a great thriller.