兄弟

Brothers, a movie attempting to describe 兄弟情 but in a triad society environment.

Looking at the cast, it feels like a reunion of “A” list actors from the past, 苗乔伟, 汤镇业, 黄日华, etc. Eason Chan looked out of place in this movie, he just doesn’t fit into a triad family. And somehow I don’t like his frizzy and curly hairstyle, looked frivolous.

Police and triad movies from hongkong are aplenty though not producing at a rate during its boom period.

The poster of brothers seems to attract the attention of audience with its sleek and very “义气” like design. But the movie just failed, maybe expectation was just not there.

Initially, the plot still looked good as details are tight but as it gets along, it slow down and I felt like … “Why don’t just it ends ?”. The worst is the ending, with everything within expectation in place, a twist or some “big bang” ending was like “in the pipeline”.

Sigh … Nah. Ending was …. Crap, at least to me.

This 天哥 guy, the head of the triad was supposed to have 20 years of good fortune as told by some master. In addition, the master also say his sons must be separated if not they will 相残. Eason was sent away to the US while苗乔伟
stayed behind.

And of course, others in the triad eyeing his position but then since he was “Po Pi” for 20 years, he remained in control till his son who remain by his side grew up.

苗乔伟 took over the rein and did the job well. But then the father was killed by the other oldie in the triad, can’t remember his name, who just “Buay Song” his father.

Eason came back and was used by 苗乔伟 to kill that oldie to avenge their father’s death. After that, the movie was trying to depict the trust, the 亲情, the 猜疑 between the brothers.

Then …. the crap ending.

Forgot to mention that Andy Lau was a cop in the movie. A triad must have police elements of some sort. 6/10.