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Information
- Year
- 1999
- Runtime
- 110 min.
- Director
- James Foley
- Genres
- Action, Crime, Drama
- Rating *
- 6.0
- Votes *
- 14,008
- Checks
- 444
- Favs
- 7
- Dislikes
- 18
- Favs/checks
- 1.6% (1:63)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:3
Top comments
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Siskoid
The Corruptor tries to be the kind of Chow Yun-Fat movie John Woo was making back in Hong Kong. It's got the slick and moody cinematography, the kinetic camera work, and that particular star doing some gun fu moves. If it failed to capture the American imagination, it's that Chow Yun-Fat's awkward accent in English prevents him from giving the best possible performance, and can even be intelligible. Saddle him with the less than emotional Mark Wahlberg, and you've got little star power to actually draw on. It's too bad too, because the movie really does look good, and the buddy cop formula is well used to create a world where neither cop can truly trust the other, one where being "crooked" is possibly the best way to accomplish some good. New York's Chinatown is presented as benevolent triad territory, so long as no one really gets hurt. So are the cops really going to create a vacuum that can only be filled with gang violence? Would have been better in straight-up Cantonese 8 years 8 months ago