LeonLouisRicci Generic, Cluttered, and Confusing, this Under Developed and Utterly Exploitive Examining tries to be too many things. But it is too Short and Unrealized and it Comes Off as Slick B-Movie Badness so often seen.It's a Mad World, the Setting that the Illegal Immigrants Find Themselves, where Human Trafficking, Torture, Guns, Drugs and Money are all in Plain Sight and Little is Offered to Them that is Not a Daily Drudge of Lost Hope and Dreams.This is a Story of Two Youngsters Flushed down the toilet of Humanity and End Up at the End of the Line that is Presented as a Way Out of Ordinariness. "A fisherman in China will always be a fisherman in China, but in America even a dishwasher has hope.".At the End of this over Indulgent of Everything in the Melting Pot is Familiar Stories since Forever, You will Find Nothing New or Nothing Worth Knowing that isn't already a Common Thread that is on going Weaving Fabric of America's Crazy Quilt to this Day. Not Much has Changed in well over a Hundred Years Except the Countries of Origin.

kosmasp This is based on true events that happened in America. You may look at it, as either glorifying violence to a degree or making immigrants look bad, but that would be beside the point. I don't believe this to be a propaganda either way. I do believe that the story is interesting and while it probably is heighten for movie purposes it deserved to be told in a way like this.Acting is OK, the setting is decent and the action scenes deliver mostly (though they are not too heightened/fancy). There still is blood, not many women involved (other than to look pretty) and everything else you'd expect (for better or worse) from a B-movie, even without it being based on true life.

teddyackerdude This movie was bad, really really bad. Where the hell was Scorsese? Did they just stick his name in the credits to trick unsuspecting movie goers to go and watch a mediocre movie? Because if they did it definitely worked on me.The only good thing about this movie is that luckily it is only 90 minutes long. If it was any longer I would have stopped watching.Even the big twist at the end was boring as hell. I was sitting there waiting for the big climactic finale and then it was just like oh yea, that just happened. Thanks for coming. This is a typical movie where the trailer has the best parts and it only serves to lure you to watch a mediocre film.

BasicLogic this film has made me wonder if the director from Hongkong is a real Chinese or worse yet, did this guy really know anything about the Chinese immigrants and those who came to America in the 1980s? the screenplay of this film is a absurd practical joke played on the Chinese immigrants, it's like George Bush Sr. amazed at the bar-code scanner when he found out at the first time, a device already existed and used in the supermarkets for years. i really don't know how this screenplay would have approved by the production company and its producers/investors of this film. the storyline was so outlandish and absurd that so many legal Chinese immigrant would rush into the customs like Irish refugees who came to America in the early 20th century. none of the Chinese characters appeared in this stupid film looked like legit typical Chinese, guys worked in the kitchen spoke Taiwanese intonation Chinese mandarin, bunch of elder Chinese young gang-bangers chasing two youngsters who escaped into the back kitchen of a Chinese restaurant, a woman gangster mamma-san enslaved all the newcomers. the screenplay was just so weird, so absurd and so formulaic out of touch. a messy patch-up work done by some moron who not only didn't know anything about the Chinese immigrants but also didn't know anything about the Chinese gangster tong culture and its history. the screenplay was like a homework by a high school American Chinese, his only knowledge of the Chinese was from some comic books, like FuManchu or Charlie Chen crap. there's nothing right and the cast so poorly assigned. some viewers still tried so hard to match this film with those often mentioned better films and certain master-level director, well, listen, okay, save it, dude, don't try to fool yourself. this is one of the worst films ever made since moving pictures were invented, period.