Starring one of the most well-known and bankable Chinese movie directors Feng Xiaogang, the sixth-generation film director Guan Hu's 8th feature MR. SIX is a modern-day "wuxia" fantasy, set in Beijing, Mr. Six (Feng) is a middle-aged widower from a hoodlum background, the film's Chinese title "lao pao er" is the patois of "an old gangster", a resident in one of the city's remaining hutong areas. When his only son Xiaobo (Li) is embroiled in the ruction with a local drag race gang of gilded youth, whose leader Xiaofei (Wu) holds Xiaobo as a hostage for scraping his Enzo Ferrari, it is up to Mr. Six to square up the score, but can he? considering his old-school rules of right and wrong is very much out of touch with the city's burgeoning modernity and the bumptious next generation (represented by both Li and Wu, as the emergent heartthrobs whose acting skills are constantly being questioned, but here they come off fine).
Obviously Mr. Six has a glorious past which he can wallow in, believes that there is honor among gangsters, and bemoans the declension of the younger generation, he can still hold sway among his friends and cohorts (a prologue and his intercession with a local police officer make clear that he still retains a certain degree....
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Obviously Mr. Six has a glorious past which he can wallow in, believes that there is honor among gangsters, and bemoans the declension of the younger generation, he can still hold sway among his friends and cohorts (a prologue and his intercession with a local police officer make clear that he still retains a certain degree....
continue reading my review on my blog: cinema omnivore