Review of movie Walled City

This action packed Hong Kong movie is jaw dropping in its depiction of the heart of darkness.Its a no mans land of lawlessness and crimininality with drug deals,prostitution dens,unlicensed doctors,triads operating side by side with small businesses of barbers,plastic flowers manufacturers and restaurant businesses.its a hell on earth making it the densest populated place on earth.the sunlight cant reach the ground with the maze of electrical wires and forests of tv antennas vie with laundry poles and air con units. the stunt choreography is powerful,fast paced,explosive and kudos to hong kong stuntman industry for visually stunning actions the plot is realistic of how past feuds carry on to the next generation as debt of blood must be avenged.the acting is first class professionalism as Loius Koo is embodiment of both the good and evil coexisting in a triad head.and he fights n kicks kung fu as an ageing sifu.alongside a formidable kung fu action of the elderly Samo Hung who still packs a punch thats agile for an old man his age.it shows how circumstances in life shapes ones destiny and the use of the kite flying free up in the sky but unable to escape from the strings of its manipulator is a poignant symbol of those unable to cast away their dark past. no wonder fhe Walled City has inspire movies and video games,photographers and vidual artists.tbe latest video game inspired french animators to see the walled city through the eyes of a Stray cat. Now if someone would recreate the Petaling street history and the Heart of Kuala Lumpur with the early history of Chinese tin miners,triad warfare between the Ghee Hin and Hai San,how immigrants eke out a living selling goods in sundry shops in Central market to the funeral parlours and flower markets of Chinatown,the dim sum shops,the clan association houses,the old opium dens and coolies transporting bags of rice alongside sampans on the klang river.tbe British administrators working at the moorish inspired buildings and the watering hole the Selamgor club.tell an old Malaya story in manga or video game style.like the Hong Kongs walled city,the early settlement of a muddy estuary has a lot of creative potential. call it "All wok of life from the coolie to the kuali.Chinatown was the go to place from mooncakes, hokkien fried noodles,wintermelon lo hon go to dim sum and wedding pastry.thats where we get new year wax duck,chinese sausages,chinese herbs to chinese noodles.