[IronManLives]

Plot: The movie tells the story of how a Triad Society in Hong Kong chooses their new leader, or Chairman. Up for the job are Lok (Simon Yam), a seemingly mild-mannered, intelligent gangster and single parent to a young teen, and the explosive Big D (Tony Leung Ka Fai), who wants the job at all costs. Bribery, bullying, and other means of extorting votes from the elder Triads have commenced in full as the story begins. At one point, the movie traces the background of the organized crime society (The Triads) which was “..originally a quasi-religious, patriotic organisations created to liberate the Chinese from foreign oppressors…”.

Plot: Wo Sing is Hong Kong’s oldest Triad Society. Under the leadership of its current Chairman Lok, it has grown to become the most feared crime organization in the city. Jimmy (Louis Koo), a twenty-first-century gangster with an M.B.A., wants to go clean by building a legitimate business empire. His profit-making enterprises have already made him a favorite in the upcoming Chairman election, but his popularity has also brought him to the attention of the Chinese authorities, who believe he is the perfect middleman to bring the Triads and the Central Government into peaceful co-existence. The Chinese authorities offer Jimmy access to the Mainland’s business market should he choose to lead Wo Sing for the next two years. The irony is not lost on Jimmy: in order to escape the Triads, first he must become their leader.

[tehPARADOX]

Pretty good movies, I also recommend exile and it's prequel.

[IronManLives]

I've seen them, both good movies, though I don't see The Mission as a prequel since they play different characters but thematically they are very similar movies.

[tehPARADOX]

Hm, forgot where I read it. But it was suppose to be a prequel.

[IronManLives]

Well, it is and it isn't, same film makers, same cast. I guess you could see it more like the next chapter. Like the Sergio Leone Dollers trilogy, same actors, different characters but all part of the same series of movies.

[reck]

Thanks again for the movies IML.

You sure know good movies.8)