superb acting of behalf of chow yun fat. a touching story and a good script. direction and production levels are very high. story telling and charactor development was key and performed very well. this movie is a true classic and i recommend this movie to everyone, hopefully after they see a movie like this they can finally realize pieces of junk garbage like Gen-Y cops, OMG that movie sucked! everything from ripping off the style of other movies and the pittfully horrible acting sucked NUTZ!!! please burn the master copy of that move!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!