GO TO: Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (2024) dir. Soi Cheang
And Soi Cheang’s Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In, the star-studded crime actioner, is the most culturally relevant film to originate from Hong Kong last year.
The Kowloon Walled City would be unbelievable if it weren’t for the photographic and historical proof of its existence. An endless slab of concrete and the densest city to ever grace our planet, the buildings unfathomably grew into each other and became indistinguishable in the same way lovers. The city even daunted authorities to the point it was, in function, lawless and became the territory of the triads. And Soi Cheang’s Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In, the star-studded crime actioner, is the most culturally relevant film to originate from Hong Kong last year and it is also the best use of the Kowloon geographical phenomenon in the movies so far.
Read the full blurb review at the Boston Hassle.