Description: If Sergio Leone made Spaghetti westerns, what does that make Johnnie To s blatant Hong Kong homage? A Chow Mein Crime saga? To may operate in the world of Hong Kong triads and crooked cops but they re just a modern substitute for old-school Mexican standoffs, even his score lulls between the hyper-stylised shoot-out storms to mournful harmonicas and plangent guitar. The Cantonese title for Fong Juk translates as Exiled but it could easily read Once Upon A Time In The East.
