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Drug War
Directed by
Johnnie To
R
2012
1h 46m
Drama
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Action
,
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7.0
94%
77%
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A drug cartel boss who is arrested in a raid is coerced into betraying his former accomplices as part of an undercover operation.
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Cast of Drug War
Louis Koo
Timmy Choi
Sun Honglei
Captain Zhang Lei
Huang Yi
Yang Xiaobei
Michelle Ye Xuan
Sal
Lam Suet
Fatso
Gao Yunxiang
Xu Guoxiang
Wang Ziyi
Lin
Wallace Chung
Guo Weiju
Li Guangjie
Chen Shixiong
Yin Zhusheng
Snake Head
Lo Hoi-Pang
Birdie
Berg Ng Ting-Yip
Hatred
Eddie Cheung Siu-Fai
Su
Gordon Lam Ka-Tung
East Lee
Philip Keung Ho-Man
Darkie
Guo Tao
Senior Dumb
Li Jing
Junior Dumb
Gao Xin
Ming's Stoned Truck Driver
Xiao Cong
Ming's Stoned Truck Driver
Li Zhenqi
Uncle Bill
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Drug War Ratings & Reviews
Film Comment Magazine
Steve Erickson
Not only does the film never question the ethics of a war on drugs in which dealers and manufacturers are subject to the death penalty, it appears to enthusiastically endorse it.
Boston Globe
Tom Russo
Another inkling of the style limitations perhaps most responsible for To's lower visibility stateside compared with, say, his countrymen John Woo and Wong Kar-wai.
Chicago Reader
Ben Sachs
Few other working filmmakers display this degree of visual sophistication and old-school craftsmanship.
San Francisco Chronicle
G. Allen Johnson
As always, To delivers fantastic set pieces ...
Philadelphia Inquirer
Tirdad Derakhshani
Drug War is a deeply intelligent, exhilarating and eminently satisfying adult crime story, one of the best thrillers you're likely to see this year.
Seattle Times
Tom Keogh
An intense and constantly surprising crime story in which destiny seems to fold in on itself ...
Los Angeles Times
Betsy Sharkey
To has a great mastery of timing; he knows just how long to let a look linger before cutting away, how little he can reveal without losing us.
RogerEbert.com
Simon Abrams
While it takes a while to come to a full boil, Drug War is an atypically grim gangster film from the typically inspired Hong Kong filmmaker Johnnie To.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Cars go crunch, bullets fly, blood spurts, bodies splatter and an unbelievable amount of cocaine is snorted. The climactic shootout, which goes on for 15 minutes and has an astronomical body count, is a masterpiece of its kind.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
While Mr. To may not fill the movie with rousing speeches, either by inclination or out of political necessity, the brilliant, unsettling action scenes - ugly, savage, dehumanizing - speak volumes.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
The big budget and big social canvas have called forth one of [To's] best movies, a dense and involving police procedural with a dash of the grotesque and a persistent undertone of doom.
NPR
Mark Jenkins
The story's apparent hero is a police captain without the quirks and complications of To's usual cops. But a scriptwriting team that includes co-producer and longtime collaborator Wai Ka-fai takes the story in satisfyingly unexpected directions.
AV Club
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
Drug War becomes both weightier and more playful with each transition, building to a harrowing finale.
The Dissolve
Noel Murray
While Drug War is ultimately more an exercise in craft than a movie with a lot on its mind, it's a remarkably skillful exercise, and hardly devoid of ideas.
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
It doesn't attempt to raise the stakes on its genre, but instead fully exploits what's there, piecing together an elaborate narc campaign tale out of classic clichs and tight-knot plotting ...
IndieWire
Eric Kohn
...features a tense, unstoppable momentum, a morally ambiguous protagonist and hugely involving action scenes, all of which provide a welcome alternative to many of the less precise spectacles released on American screens this summer.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
The film is a singularly huge, relentless, all-encompassing set piece that mutates and spasms with terrifying lack of foresight. It's all business, business, business.
Variety
Boyd van Hoeij
Hong Kong action maestro Johnnie To takes his genre filmmaking savvy to the mainland in Drug War, a nail-biter that's actually quite light on action but so well-scripted and shot, it's nonetheless edge-of-your-seat material.
The Hollywood Reporter
Deborah Young
Dynamic chase film hits all the right buttons to fascinate edge-of-seat cop op addicts.
Film.com
Jordan Hoffman
"Drug War" is by no means a bad film, but it doesn't do much to push the needle of originality, and doesn't glide enough to represent perfection of the genre.
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