Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In review – frenetic actioner in infamous Kowloon neighbourhood
17-05-2024 10:00 via theguardian.com

Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In review – frenetic actioner in infamous Kowloon neighbourhood

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The choreography is impressive as people are hurled through walls, thrown off rooftops and otherwise beaten to a pulp, but the editing is frenetic and the characters cartoonishHong Kong’s Kowloon Walled City – once the most densely populated place on Earth – is the perfect movie setting: a Piranesian labyrinth of squalid high rises and dark, cramped alleys, teeming with crooks, lowlifes, addicts and impoverished families running small businesses, legit and
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