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  Review by Nick Dets ★★½ 3

  Purple Storm’s needlessly hard to follow plot involves a mercenary who gets amnesia, then is memory-manipulated by Chinese Intelligence into finding a bio weapon which literally manifests as…purple rain?? Teddy Chan packs this silly shit full of gunplay, which is never quite satisfying as far as HK standards go. The utter lack of character dimensionality is the real problem, as there’s never enough to care about with a trope-laden script that drowns in its cliches. The aesthetic was the pleasure for me; anamorphic frames filled with the kind of sleek, high tech, blue neon-washed late 90’s/early 00’s spy flick vibes I can’t seem to get enough of. Also, just love that someone heard “Purple Rain” on the radio and thought “aha!” (2/4)

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  Review by Niles Ip ★★½

  我係個黨員！

  究竟我哋革命係為咗啲咩？

  恐怖分子失憶，被警方洗腦設局，繼而派往恐怖分子嘅首領身邊做臥底……
  但係呢個恐怖分子就係首領個仔😂😂😂

  商業大片，為大場面而生，有多場槍戰 、爆炸 (唔係真爆炸，啲特效好假)，可惜劇本細節、情理欠奉，即使集中描寫主角被記憶糾纏，但是故事篇幅嚴重失衡，過度側重於主角的掙扎，周邊人物的描寫少之有少，而且毫無特色，同埋啲大場面都拍唔到應有嘅震撼。

  導演加插不少意象鏡頭，例如蝴蝶、烏鴉，又有很多close up眼睛。

  估唔到何超儀最型，比起甘國亮大反派更為搶眼，演出亦勝過其他演員

  陳豪好慘，明明只係手臂中槍，但已經暈咗？ 冇人救佢，喺隧道等死😭
  最後walkie 仲有句所有傷者已經送往醫院搶救😂 我心諗wtf

  Shirley Kwan 唔係關淑怡咩
  陳沖由蘇玉華配音

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  Review by Andrew Moncrieff ★★½

  This actually has a good premise. With better acting (Josie Ho was the only performance that really did anything for me and she’s not that big of a character), much tighter pacing and something more special in the fights, this could have been the action movie equivalent of Infernal Affairs. As it is, it’s a plodding and cheap feeling western-style action from people who we all know can and frequently do better. Jackie Chan produced this and Josie from Twin Peaks is in it, for some reason. I’d call it a fiasco but I think it made bank in HK.