Nothing to sniff at

Drug War (2013)

Directed by Johnnie To this film stars Sun Honglei, Louis Koo and Huang Yi. In china a drug lord works with the police to stave off the death penalty.

This is a fairly nuts and bolts film about the drug trade in China which does not ever do anything new but is very proficient. Events move a long at a nice pace but there is never really a clock driving the action so it does lack a sense of suspense at times. There is not a lot of action but the film does end in a fairly brutal shoot out which seems less realistic than the investigation that proceeded it.

3/5