The time is 1998. The setting is Macau. Every living soul jumps at every chance to make quick money before the Portuguese colony ushers in a new era under the Chinese rule. For the jaded hit men, they wonder where this journey will end. Against this backdrop come two hit men from Hong Kong sent to take out a renegade member trying to turn over a new leaf with his wife and newborn baby. They soon find themselves in the throes of a dilemma when two of their former associates also show up, intent on thwarting them at every cost.
Boooooring.
This movie its about...nothing.
Guns are fired, people are killed, there are slow motion poses. Yet, I took away nothing from this film. I thought the movie was about the dude in the first scene. Turns out it is about the hit squad sent to kill him.
The opening scene takes a minute to develop, but when the guns start blasting, shit gets real...for about 5 minutes. If a hit is ordered and a guy is to be killed, why then are you furnishing his house? Do you feel guilty for shooting it up? I don't get it. They fucking made dinner. Bread was broke. I don't know think that's how you treat the guys that come to kill you, but I guess it's a different culture in China. They even took family fucking photos. "Say, this has been fun and all, but you know I have to kill you?" With that, they finally.got back to business. The funniest part of the film? The bad guys wrapped a dude up in a hospital sheet and he hit every object as they tossed him from a 5 story window. They then used his body for bait as they shot it, to provoke his rescue. That's Classic scumbag villain behavior.
Following that scene, the hit squad brings the body home and the wife flips her shit and fires at the team. (Good thing she's a terrible shot, I would have hated to see her hit someone standing 1 ft away.) With reckless abandon for everyone and everything else living in the building, she burns the furniture and her husband's body and walks away. Apparently she's now on a mission to kill them. The gang flees safely, steals a shipment of gold and have a final confrontation with the big boss. With the help of the big boss, she gets her revenge, and in the time it takes for an airborne can of Redbull to hit the ground there is a final bloody shootout which mercifully leads to the end credits.
Out of Ten? 5
Exiled is a long and uneventful film. The best thing going for it was that it actually ended. Violence? Gun heavy
Explosions? No
Nudity? A quick flash of titty.
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