Triad – Underworld (2004/Palisade Tartan Asia
Extreme DVD)
Picture: B Sound: B Extras: C Film: B-
Triad mob
boss Hung had just found out someone put a hit out for him. Should he fight or should he run? Both his right-hand man Lefty and his
lieutenants encourage him to leave town and leave it to them, but can Hung
afford to do so, if he leaves the other mob bosses might see him as a coward,
but his men will go wild without him around. His only option is to find out who called the
hit and hit him back before they get him. The streets of Hong Kong
will be covered in blood before this is all over in Wong Ching-Po’s Triad – Underworld (2004).
Mob Boss
Hung couldn't have found out about this hit at a worst time, his wife just had
a baby and some is out to take him out of the picture. Lefty, Hung's right-hand man/best friend, feels
Hung has gone soft since he became a father and has his own ambition to
take over the Triad for himself. Lefty would like Hung to just give up his
position and hand it over to him but both knows it's not going to be easy as
that, but Hung see through Lefty's plans and plays masterful mind game with
Lefty and reminds him there are 'rules' and that killing isn't all
that there is to being a mob boss. As Hung and Lefty dance around each other,
each moment the assassin is getting closer.
I love these Hong Kong movies, they are always
so much more complex and have more subtitles. Superstar Andy Lau play a shrewd mob boss
and what started out as two street punks being hired out to kill a mob boss,
turns out to be a coup d'état by his most trusted man, but film then gives it a
twist, the two street punks hired turns out to parallel the to the
two main character's past, is it their past or is it history repeating
itself? Two best friends who grew up on
the streets to become the most powerful Triad, and now the only one left to
kill is each other... after years of being blood brothers is blood thicker than
water? Extras include making of the
film, music video and trailer.
- Ricky Chiang
