Отверженные (2006) Exiled ☆ Fong Juk

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«"Отверженные" – мегаподарок тем, кто любит Джонни То за его непревзойденную техничность и визуальную изобретательность. Это настоящий синефильский оргазм, если можно так выразиться, – виртуозное, выверенное до последнего миллиметра заднего плана упражнение в стилистике. Хотя какое там упражнение – скорее, показательное выступление, мастер-класс на тему того, как должны выглядеть, звучать и двигаться современные криминальные драмы.»

«Пока Джон Ву заполоняет кадр голубями, его коллега мыслит куда более масштабными метафорами. Он – самый элегантный историк, скрывающийся за маской постановщика боевиков.»

«"Exiled" is a tonic — a film that delivers all the visceral satisfactions of a super-macho action picture (close-quarters gun battles; slow-motion “Wild Bunch”-style side-by-side struts) and unabashedly sentimental depictions of loyalty and tenderness as well as plot twists that are surprising, often bizarre, yet feel just right.»

«While the spaghetti Western maestro's influence is unmistakable in "Exiled's" long-wait takes, cigar-chomping gunslingers and Mexican standoff compositions, To quickly incorporates all that into his own urban, kinetic and bloodily beautiful view of the underworld.»

«If one approaches Exiled as a fan of Hong Kong Cinema and Johnnie To in particular, then there's only one way to say it: Exiled rocks. The gunplay is exciting, the themes familiar and resonant, and the actors insanely charismatic, with most of them (save perhaps Simon Yam, who's pointedly over-the-top) adjusting their performances to the film's particular cadence. ... With Exiled, Johnnie To has given his faithful fans a gift, complete with bullet-ridded wrapping paper and bloodstained, personally-addressed card.»

«Exiled is not a serious film in the way Election is a serious film. This is not To making a statement. This is To in full on entertainment mode and he succeeds mightily in that regard.»

«Unlike Election with its political undertones, Exiled in my opinion steered quite clear and is what it is, a good old fashioned HK triad picture with heavy focus on friendship and brotherhood.»

«At this point in his career, To can put together a movie like “Exiled” over a weekend and not break a sweat. The man has done this type of film so many times, with the same characters (and heck, even actors), that it’s second nature. In that respect, is “Exiled” a great Johnnie To movie? No. But it’s a good Johnnie To movie, and considering the dreck coming out of Hong Kong in recent years, that’s saying a lot.»

«Returning with many of the same actors and structured as a loose sequel of To's 1999 claim-to-fame The Mission, To has come full circle with his genre exercises, excessively placing dollops of humor and Western criticism throughout the banter and gunfights.»

«The formula seems to be: 20 minutes of talk followed by eight minutes of hyper-kinetic insanity -- and repeat three times. While certainly an entertaining enough romp through the world of bullet-defying tough guys, the movie could use perhaps 10% more action or 15% less chit-chat. It's a minor complaint, given the juicy stuff up on the screen, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't shift in my seat and check my watch once or twice.»

«With the cacophony of chaos, the symphony of the score and the solemnest of silence, To pays tribute to the power of sound in his movie. His gun battles are so highly stylised and removed from reality that one can’t help but be spellbound by the graceful velocity of his camera’s movement and the visual gambits undertaken.»