OK...the 3 handsome male leads, one being the tragically departed leslie cheung, the 2nd being andy lau and in the 2nd half of the movie a very young korean superstar jung woo sung and in my personal opinion, they have never looked better.
love found, love lost and love shunned...rousing and heartbreaking at the same time with some very good action pieces involved. one of the best movies of the mid to late nineties.
andy lau has never looked better, that pencil thin mustache that he acquires really makes him stand out.
this movie is actually a reworking of a long television series of the early 80's which made chow yun fat a superstar. the plots been changed majorly although the 2 main male leads kept the same names as in the TV series.
the story takes place in 1930's shanghai pre-world war 2 and has a lot of subplots involving turncoats working for the Japanese who are major gangsters in shanghai, Chinese patriots and just plain gangsters vying for power and also the corrupt cops who patrol shanghai who sell themselves to the highest bidder regardless.
heartbreaking story of two brothers by action, who take over shanghais criminal underworld and the misunderstanding over a woman who comes between them and the bloodshed that ensues.
this movie gets a very strong recommendation to watch...from me so if you are a fan of hong kong cinema its a don't miss.
