An old dai lo (Chung Hung) is looking back on his life and wants to start to do some good to patch things up with his son (Chow Yun-Fat). Before his plan is put into action, the crime boss is captured by the police. Sensing weakness in the organization, a group of Japanese Yakuza start to move in, which prompts Chow to take over the "business."

This is a fairly decent crime movie. The action is well-done and very violent, but the expostion scenes are slow moving, talky, and really slow the film down. Chow Yun-Fat fans looking for another A Better Tomorrow will probably be disappointed -- despite his top billing, Chow is only in the movie for a relatively short time. While Brotherhood isn't a bad movie, there are a lot of other movies in this genre which are better and more deserving of your time and money.