Fong juk (Exiled) (2006)
84%RT Audience Score: 80%
Awards & Nominations: 8 wins & 16 nominations
Exiled has non-stop action, tension and style — making it an excellent summer action movie. Johnnie To brings beautiful scenery and camerawork to the film, enhancing the action even more
Exiled is like a wild ride on a rollercoaster, but instead of screaming in terror, you’re laughing your head off. It’s a mix of violence and humor that somehow works, and the soundtrack is killer. Sure, it might be a bit pretentious at times, but who cares when you’re having this much fun? Johnny To’s direction is as smooth as butter, and the finale is a masterpiece of slow-motion bloodshed. It’s like a dream synthesized from Sergio Leone and Sam Peckinpah, and I can’t wait to watch it again.
Production Company(ies)
Distributor
NA
Release Type
Filming Location(s)
Macau, China
MPAA / Certificate
Rated R for strong violence and some sexual content
Year of Release
2006
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Dolby Digital
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Aspect ratio:2.35 : 1
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Runtime:NA
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Language(s):Cantonese, English
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Streaming): Dec 4, 2007
Genre(s)
Mystery & thriller
Keyword(s)
Exiled, Mystery, Thriller, Chinese, Johnnie To, Kam-Yuen Szeto, Tin-Shing Yip, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Francis Ng, Josie Ho, Nick Cheung, Richie Ren, Simon Yam, R, Strong Violence, Some Sexual Content, Box Office, Gross USA, $49.4K, Reviewed by Cliff Doerksen, David Fear, Nick Schager, Wesley Morris, Ted Fry, G Allen Johnson, Calum Marsh, Craig Phillips, Amber Wilkinson, Tim Brayton, Andrew Wright, Sean Axmaker, Action, Tension, Style, Summer Action Movie, Hit Men, Hong Kong, Macau, Renegade Member, Gang, Law, Wife, Baby, Adversaries, Beautiful Scenery, Camerawork, Non-Stop Action, MPAA Rating, Directed by Johnnie To, Written by Kam-Yuen Szeto, Tin-Shing Yip, Produced by Johnnie To
Worldwide gross: $1,230,135
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $1,814,027
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 2,442
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 197,822
US/Canada gross: $51,957
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): $76,619
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 2,698
US/Canada opening weekend: $15,502
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): $22,860
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): 2,464
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): HK$35,000,000
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): NA
Production budget ranking: NA
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): NA
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): NA
ROI to date (est.): NA
ROI ranking: NA
Francis Ng – Tai
Josie Ho – Jin
Nick Cheung – Wo
Richie Ren – Sergeant Chen
Simon Yam – Boss Fay
Director – Johnnie To
Producer – Johnnie To
Writers – Kam-Yuen Szeto, Tin-Shing Yip
Director(s)
Johnnie To
Writer(s)
Kam-Yuen Szeto, Tin-Shing Yip
Producer(s)
Johnnie To
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
8 wins & 16 nominations
Academy Awards
All Critics (65) | Top Critics (29) | Fresh (52) | Rotten (13)
November 18, 2011 | Rating: 2/5
Cliff Doerksen
Time Out
TOP CRITIC
January 18, 2008 | Rating: 4/6
David Fear
Time Out
TOP CRITIC
An electric, inventive amalgam of gonzo violence and lyrical sentimentality.
December 21, 2007 | Rating: B+
Nick Schager
Lessons of Darkness
TOP CRITIC
A simmering pot of blood and yucks, accented with guitar and harmonica on the soundtrack.
November 2, 2007 | Rating: 3/4
Wesley Morris
Boston Globe
TOP CRITIC
The finale is a slow-motion tour de force that blends style, elegance and nuance of character in showers of blood.
September 14, 2007 | Rating: 3.5/4
Ted Fry
Seattle Times
TOP CRITIC
Exiled is creative and bizarre, maybe too bizarre, but since most action films adhere to a cookie-cutter formula, its quirkiness is most welcome.
September 7, 2007 | Rating: 3/4
G. Allen Johnson
San Francisco Chronicle
TOP CRITIC
Exiled takes the familiar story of a mob hit gone awry and tells it with such artfulness and virtuosity that it feels like nothing you’ve ever seen before.
October 17, 2018
Calum Marsh
Esquire Magazine
Exiled veers on the pretentious …but the whole thing has such a humor about itself that it’s hard to carp about it.
July 30, 2009 | Rating: 4/5
Craig Phillips
GreenCine
Johnny To’s direction is as smooth as a well-cut suit and the violence has a balletic intensity.
December 7, 2007 | Rating: 4.5/5
Amber Wilkinson
Eye for Film
Less a movie than a phantasmagorical dream synthesised from Sergio Leone and Sam Peckinpah.
September 14, 2007 | Rating: 8/10
Tim Brayton
Antagony & Ecstasy
A brilliant reminder of the glory days of Heroic Bloodshed … call it a flashback, a comeback, or the end of an era; all I know is that I want to see it again.
September 13, 2007
Andrew Wright
The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
It’s a fantasy of a crime epic, to be sure, but it’s a glorious fantasy in which the unspoken bonds of brotherhood bathe every shootout and sacrifice in the light of myth.
September 13, 2007 | Rating: B+
Sean Axmaker
Seattle Post-Intelligencer…
Plot
The time is 1998. The setting is Macau. Every living soul jumps at every chance to make quick money before the Portuguese colony ushers in a new era under the Chinese rule. For the jaded hit men, they wonder where this journey will end. Against this backdrop come two hit men from Hong Kong sent to take out a renegade member trying to turn over a new leaf with his wife and newborn baby. They soon find themselves in the throes of a dilemma when two of their former associates also show up, intent on thwarting them at every cost.
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
Exiled stars Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Francis Ng, Josie Ho, Nick Cheung, Richie Ren, and Simon Yam.
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