Reviews for this film from our members:
- Beth Accomando @ KPBS Cinema Junkie
- Excerpt: To’s film is solidly directed, and brutal and unflinching in its depiction of the drug world at the center of the story. As is usual for his films, the tech credits are impeccable with the film smartly shot, tensely cut, and flawlessly acted.
- Sean Axmaker @ Turner Classic Movies
- Excerpt: Drug War is To’s first crime thriller set in Mainland China. He trades the urban overcrowding and overheated capitalism of Hong Kong for the open plains and lonely highways of Tianjin but otherwise it is a classic Hong Kong-style police procedural driven by one of To’s trademark teams.
- [New – 11/28] | Joshua Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: To orchestrates a huge cast and multi-layered plot like the ringmaster of a three-ring circus, his explosive, nihilistic finale layered with betrayals.
- Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Peter Nellhaus @ Coffee Coffee and more Coffee
- Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: Magnificent. Johnnie To’s gritty police procedural, involving a Tianjin police department sting operation, shares William Friedkin’s muscular sense of filming techniques — see “The French Connection.”
