So there's this one scene, in this Hong Kong gangster flick, where our main character(Louis Koo) starts hacking off a rival gangster's arms and legs and feeding them into a meat-grinder to turn them into dog food. I would imagine that one scene is the entire reason this film was released as part of the "Asia Extreme" dvd series because that's really the only particularly gruesome thing that happens during the whole runtime. The rest of the film is pretty slow for the most part and deals more with Chinese politics(within the criminal underworld and beyond) than anything else. Going into this I didn't know it was a sequel, hence the ELECTION 2 aka, involving some of the same characters. Not sure if that one was more of an action film but I might check it out at some point since this was very well done by director Johnnie To regardless of it's relative lack of explosive elements. To was nice enough to limit this to a sweet 90 minute runtime.
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