Sunday, December 22, 2013

Vengeance (2009)

  I could not tear myself away from this movie.  Once I started watching it, that was it.

When Frank Costello's (Johnny Hallyday) daughter and her family are gunned down in Macau, he leaves his Parisian restaurant and flies across the world to enact vengeance.  There are only a couple of problems:  Frank doesn't speak Chinese, his daughter (Sylvie Testud) can't identify the three men who attacked her, and Frank might suddenly lose any and all memory thanks to a bullet lodged in his brain from when he used to be a gangster.  But he is not about to let that stand in the way of some bloody justice.  He hires contract killers Kwai (Anthony Wong), Chu (Ka Tung Lam) and Fat Lok (Suet Lam) to help him find the three murderers.  The only information of any use is that the daughter managed to shoot one's ear off in the fight.  Frank is willing to sacrifice everything he owns in order to find the men who killed his family and who paid them to do it. 

It's beautiful and tragic and weird and awesome.  You should definitely check it out.

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