As triad movies go, this one was well done. Personally, I'm not a big fan of the genre, but I liked Andy Lau in Running out of Time, so I watched this movie. I thought Andy Lau (Fei Lone), Louis Koo (the undercover cop) and Patrick Tam (the hellbent on revenge son of Anthony Wong's character) turned in good performances. Anthony wong is featured prominently in the opening credits, but basically spends the movie in a vegitative state. My main complaint about the movie is the pacing. Because the movie seemed to focus more on the psychological elements, such as Andy Lau trying to walk a line between going straight, taking care of triad busines and not having the others think he's gone soft, or the two undercover cops who've been undercover for so long they are conflicted as to whom they owe more loyalty, the police or their traid broothers, and as a result, I thought it dragged a bit, even though it wasn't particularly long. Things really pick up in the last 20 minutes and oddly enough the main action sequences are carried by a supporting character, Fei Lone's wife Daisy, played by Suki Kwan. She holds off and escapes from a large number of her husband's enemies using machetes and molotov cocktails among other things.

I watcehd this movie on TV, and on the whole, I was not particularly upset I'd stayed up from 1-3am to watch this movie. However, for people who don't particularly like triad movies, I wouldn't recommend it, unless they were big fans of Andy Lau.