by Brian Thibodeau » Tue Oct 10, 2006 5:53 am
I really gotta do a little blurb on this film in my Blog one of these days. It's still the best film (of many great ones) I saw at this year's Toronto film fest. Just phenomenally cool and every bit the equal of THE MISSION with many scenes representing "painting with light" in its purest sense. I should also point out that Richie Ren has one of the frickin' COOLEST roles in this movie as a cigarette-smokin' security van driver who picks off reams of spontaneously appearing bandits who've laid seige to his gold-laden convoy. The four main characters (Anthony, Roy, Francis and Lam Suet) watch in awe from a nearby field (they were planning to rob the same convoy, but were beaten to the punch!!), then start picking off some of the remaining bandits (in a scene very much reminiscent of, and superior to, the mall shootout in THE MISSION). I'd really love to get the soundtrack, too.