Johnnie To's Exiled - a film much loved in these parts - arrives on US shores August 31st and the good people at Magnolia Pictures have cut one very fine trailer for the thing. It's smart, stylish and captures the tone of the piece nicely and is very much worth a look even if you've seen the film five or six times already. Which I have. And I'm more than ready to catch it again on the big screen. It really is that good.
The time is 1998. 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 background of fin-de-siècle malaise 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.
Although the film genre is action, there was a bit too much of it in the trailer.
What I would like them to do for the US release, is to release the soundtrack! I was pretty disapointed that they didn't release it in HK like they did with Infernal Affairs. The instrumental pieces in Exiled are really nice in my opinion.
Well if they did then it would be totaly butchered like everything else that the U.S. releases...!