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Triad Election (2007)
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Reviews Counted:46
Fresh:44
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.4/10
Consensus: Taking its cues from the Godfather series, Triad Election understands how a giddy mix of thrills and gunplay can make for compelling cinema.
Theatrical Release:Apr 25, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: Wo Sing is Hong Kong’s oldest Triad Society. Under the leadership of its current Chairman Lok, it has grown to become the most feared crime organization in the city. Jimmy (Louis Koo), a... [More]
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Reviews for Triad Election
Whatever he lacks in narrative drive, To is still the master of style.
12/07/07
Drips with a thick, Stygian darkness, but also offers violence that's too explicit and willfully perverse to be thoughtfully disturbing. . . . a little too overwrought, too operatic after its regal predecessor.
11/19/07
The exposition is perfectly balanced with bloody action and muscular set-pieces.
10/26/07
The film's violence erupts in rare, staccato bursts, all the more horrifying for coming out of nowhere.
08/24/07
Top CriticIf it is too stylistically modest to win converts among the multiplex crowd, the film surely rewards followers of the genre.
08/11/07
tackles big ideas like the preservation of tradition and the overall reach of destiny, but also slyly suggests that the Triad of the 21st Century has evolved into something like a giant corporation.
07/14/07
If Machiavelli's The Prince and Sun Tzu's The Art of War translate to other centuries and cultures, so might Election and Triad Election.
07/13/07
Top Critic[Director To's] talent for documentary-style realism and navigating complex political systems sets him apart, though his nationalism puts him squarely in the mainstream.
07/12/07
Top CriticThe movie’s most powerful component is political.
07/12/07
This remains a well-crafted genre movie, and one that promises further developments in its final scene.
07/06/07
Top CriticDense, demanding concentration, lacking any romantic (but plenty of sordid) violence, extremely involving and rewarding of careful attention.
06/21/07
Top CriticLike the late John Frankenheimer, director To marries his drama with action and superb composition to achieve compelling results at times.
06/18/07
If you're willing to do the work, Triad Election pays you in tragedy.
06/15/07
... exhibit A in the case for the Hong Kong gangster film as the new genre standard.
06/14/07
Shameless pulp it may be, but to watch it is to see a master craftsman continuing to refine his talent.
06/13/07
Into a season of Hollywood blockbusters, this import arrives with the impact of a high-velocity bullet.
06/08/07
Like any good sequel, this film takes what is familiar with the original's concept -- in this case, an internecine struggle for supremacy -- and deepens it.
06/08/07
Top CriticReveals [director] To as a master of lean, close-quarters action.
06/07/07
Triad Election is slow-burning and sedate, even dull in stretches. But it deserves credit for presenting such a courageous critique of the Chinese system, which combines the worst aspects of official corruption and mob lawlessness.
05/31/07
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