
Two Chinese merchant ships were attacked in Mekong river and 13 crews were killed. Thai policemen found 9 hundred thousand crystal meth on the ships. This new shocked China. Gang Gao, the leader of Narcotics Corps in Yun Nan province was assigned to lead a special team to Golden Triangle to investigate. Cooperated with a informer, Fanxin Wu, Gao discovered that 13 crew member were brutally murdered and framed up. Gao and Wu decided to fight for justice out of China no matter ... (Full plot summary below)
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Two Chinese merchant ships were attacked in Mekong river and 13 crews were killed. Thai policemen found 9 hundred thousand crystal meth on the ships. This new shocked China. Gang Gao, the leader of Narcotics Corps in Yun Nan province was assigned to lead a special team to Golden Triangle to investigate. Cooperated with a informer, Fanxin Wu, Gao discovered that 13 crew member were brutally murdered and framed up. Gao and Wu decided to fight for justice out of China no matter what it takes.
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| Examiner.comChris SawinDante Lam has orchestrated pure chaotic mayhem dripping with raw emotion and sloppy, crowd-pleasing violence. |
| DCistPat PaduaThis is why you watch Hong Kong action movies: for vicious, elegantly choreographed, fearless car chases that never let you lose sight of the action and always leave you catching your breath. |
| Los Angeles TimesNoel MurrayThough more sensationalistic than serious, this film has a scale and an energy that rivals any Hollywood blockbuster. |
| Screen InternationalSarah WardGoing in guns blazing and attempting to set pulses racing might not feel wholly appropriate given the facts at the heart of the film, but it does suit Lam’s usual style — not to mention audiences looking for non-stop thrill ride of a movie. |
| VarietyJessica KiangHow straightforward your enjoyment of the film will be largely depends on your ability to read “based on” as “very loosely inspired by” and to immediately forget that some of these archetypes and stock genre characters have real-life (and real-death) counterparts. |
| The Straits Times (Singapore)John LuiRespected Hong Kong director Dante Lam has not thrown out nuance and historical accuracy, he has crushed them and booted them into outer space. |
| User ReviewSteven ZI strongly recommend this movie. I think one of the reason this movie so well is that it highly shows the actual scenes which happened in 2011. After watching the movie, I got more sadness toward those innocent people who got killed in the event. The movie shows us that "The Golden Triangle region" is full of the temptation of drug and money. The child who got drug may shoot you, just like a little devil. The polices who work in solving this kind of problems definitely are more dangerous than what we saw in the movie. We should think about how to improve the situation in the Golden Triangle region. Drugs are not good things. I think the purpose of this movie is to remind people stay away from drug and fight against drugs. Anyway, this is a good movie. It is worth watching. |
| User ReviewJackson CEasily the best Chinese action film I've seen. Operation Mekong is able to tell a true story in a style that is more reminiscent to Hollywood blockbusters than the typical half-hearted sappy Chinese war films we are used to seeing. It is true, it is action packed, nerve wrecking with a little bit of heart. I doubt all the reenactment are true, but a film like this truly shows the growth of the Chinese movie industry. |
| User ReviewBrickwall_The story isn't anything special and it's pretty messily told. Exposition is doled out at bizarre times like waiting an hour into the movie to reveal that the main character has a daughter and all of the randomly placed flashbacks to things that do not matter. |
| User ReviewHaowei CI'm not Chinese but Im guessing if I was, I'd really like this movie. Everything is very fast paced and the cheesy songs in the night clubs and yachts make it feel like it's the 1980s again. However, the scenery is not bad and the little details that piece together the situation are refreshing. A Jackie Chan cameo would have been very satisfying but I digress. 3 out 5 stars. |