As you would expect from such a convoluted title, the film is a bit of a mess. You get that sudden switch of loyalties near the end which annoyingly makes you review the film rapidly in your head to see if it all made sense to the point. Character's motivatations are more of a given rather than developed within the story.
I recall watching the 90s prequel and I find the characters in that to have no similarity to the current incarnation.
The film is watchable and has its moments of fun, particularly in some of the character swap sequences but I can't help thinking about the conclusion of the90s version and thinking how good that final battle was and how this lacked the ballsiness of that climax. And as a direct comparison to tsui's own efforts by then, 'once upon a time in china' was on tv the other night and the cation there was clear, inventive and just so much better. I bring it up because with tsui and jet back together, one can only dream.
Oh well.
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