Golden Job

Not a satisfying movie. The story line was rushed it was all over the place.. Action was good.

Golden Job from director, action choreographer and stunt man Chin Kar Lok is somewhat a homage to the HK action flicks of the golden years while at the same time suffering from a basic storyline, silly script and typical Chinese film CG - that could have worked so much better in real life!

That said - flaws and all - I was quite entertained with it all. It was great seeing the now mature cast of Young And Dangerous back together again alongside director and star Chin, with the wonderful Eric Tsang and surprise supporting roles from the great Yasuaki Kurata and Billy Chow...

While the story itself was typical of a late 80s/early 90s HK flick, it did lend itself to some fantastic set pieces with nicely choreographed action and gunplay - particularly the last action scene which I found to be great fun!

While far from perfect - with one big let down for me being the lack of martial arts fighting Kurata had, and the same for Billy Chow. I hadn't seen him in anything recent for many years and most of his action scenes were done as gunplay...

I did like Golden Job. Although I caught it on my plane journey to Hong Kong, I'd be quite happy to watch it again on a bigger screen and hopefully appreciate it a bit more.

Hopeful next time, director Chin Kar Lol will lay off the CG and guns and give us some good old 80s style HK martial arts we all really miss!

So overall the movie is good,, it has a nice plot , maybe i got a bit confused at first , because i was trying to know exactly which language they speak , Mandarin or Cantonese then they spoke Japanese somewhere mixed with English here and there so i think it confused me a bit but nonetheless the Action and explosions were extreme but good ,, the script was okay digestible and somewhat easily followable .. the CGI and visual effects were spot on for once ,,

The cast did good engaged well ,,, and at the end when things got emotional the did well too.

as i said at the beginning it might get a bit too extreme for you with all the overdosed action and explosions but the story is worth it.. Recommended.

A peculiar brotherhood of thieves,doing heists in hungary,japan,and montenegro,so there are lots of different spice to boost an action thriller. the filming and sound are great,acting impeccible,the editing and directing are smart and the special effects are good.some of the car driving scenes are spectacular.. there are 0.001% romance in this flick,the rest is pure speed though i felt the blood spatter meter went over the top,i can recommend this film,its good.

These Hong Kong actors are like Hollywood's Rat Pack, a group likes to stay together not just on the screen but also off it. These guys are the mid older generation actors, but none of them is actually talented enough to be called "great actor". Now, they are becoming older, even past their prime, but together, they have the powerful influence in Hong Kong's movie business.

By the over-the-top settings covering Europe and Japan, lot of exotic cars smashing, crashing lot of buildings, interrupting the traffic wherever they shot those car chasing and gun fighting scenes, the production budget obviously was so big, but sadly, it was developed on a weak, loose, and ridiculous messy screenplay, scenarios and plots, extremely cliche'd. Typical Hong Kong style but like these actors, it's not a good enough, matured enough movie, so formulaic and one-way predictable, no matter how much they spent on the special effects, CGI graphic and stunt coordination.

The worst part in this movie is their Cantonese dialog, a quite ugly dialect that simply lack the seriousness what a suspenseful action thriller should be even with the good English or Chinese subtitles.