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(1 - 18) of 18 OFCS Rating: 83% Fresh Page   1   4/5 "a moody crime drama that doubles as a revolutionary political allegory - ringing the changes on China's evolving reunification even as it longs for a future that will return to the noblest values of the past."   musicOMH.com   Anton Bitel 3.5/5 "If it weren't for those pesky subtitles, you'd swear it was the best summer action film of the year."   Filmcritic.com   Chris Cabin 2/4 "...heavy on style but disappointingly low on substance."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair "...mixes brave deadpan sometimes comic crooks, comically cowardly cops, stolid laconic camaraderie, expected violence and a chivalric resolution."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Donald J. Levit 3/4 "Johnnie To's Exiled is a flabbergasting spectacle of kaleidoscopic violence that abstractly appraises codes of masculine honor."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez B "Though some of the sequences are marvelous the effect is, overall, exhausting."   Cinepinion   Henry Stewart "I keep waiting for the bottom to fall out of the Johnnie To Express, but his films just keep getting tauter, more economic, and flat-out better."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick 3/4 "Johnny To highlights the visceral mood, rather than the plot or the characters"   Movie Habit   Marty Mapes B+ "An electric, inventive amalgam of gonzo violence and lyrical sentimentality."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 4/5 "An intriguing setting and several witty, inventive directorial touches raise this above the average Hong Kong gangster thriller."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline C+ "It looks slick, but without a little more steak beneath that sizzle, the pretense becomes intolerable."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux 7/10 "Heroic redemption succeeding where several thousand rounds of 9 mm ammo fail, Exiled makes a mark with the last stand of pals doomed by fate and the changing hands of time."   Monsters and Critics   Ron Wilkinson 3.5/5 "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."   Cinematical   Scott Weinberg B+ "It's a fantasy of a crime epic, to be sure, but it's a glorious fantasy in which the unspoken bonds of brotherhood bathe every shootout and sacrifice in the light of myth."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker "I'd put [Johnnie] To's Exiled into the category of Hong Kong movies that even people who think they don't care about Hong Kong movies should see."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 8/10 "Less a movie than a phantasmagorical dream synthesised from Sergio Leone and Sam Peckinpah."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton 3.5/4 "For anyone bored silly by the formulaic drivel churned out by the studios, Exiled is like a blast of cinematic adrenaline."   Reel.com   Timothy Knight 4/4 "It has about it the feeling of a Sergio Leone spaghetti western."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw  (1 - 18) of 18 OFCS Rating: 83% Fresh Page   1