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To me, this movie is perfection.

Fantastic!

Best movie ever!

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

This One is Criminally Underrated, Director James Foley and Crew Deliver a Barrage of Action and Characters that are Stunning. We Not Only Remember the Violent Outbursts of Stylistic Violence, the Characters Stick in the Mind As Well. Certainly Chow Yun-Fat, Giving One of His Patenting Performances with Mannerisms and Controlled Mania, the FBI Agent, Brian Cox's Mess of a Father, the Chinese Gang Members, and Yes, Mark Wahlberg at His Most Restrained.The Car Chase is Simply one of the Most Complex and Violent as You're Likely to See, Not Afraid to Kill Innocent Bystanders at a Blistering Pace, In Fact the Whole Sequence is Alarming.The Movie has Everything Action Fans Could Want and More. The Cinematography is Excellent and the Film is Filled with Things that are Uncomfortable and Unique. Overall, it is One of the Best from James Foley, Wahlberg, and Can Hold its Own with Fat's Hong Kong Films. Yes, John Woo's The Killer (1989) and Hard Boiled (1992) are Better, but This One is No Slouch.

People who are not aware of Chow Yun-Fat's legacy in Hong Kong consider him to be skilled in 'Kung-Fu', something they know from watching 'Bulletproof Monk and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon'..This is a complete fallacy. Chow Yun-Fat is not trained in any sort of martial arts, he started his career doing Dramas and playing romantic roles which of course were tied in with the epic gun fights, that created an entire genre of film, now known as 'Bloodshed'.Therefore, it was natural that Chow Yun Fat would look to expand his portfolio by conquering Hollywood, sadly that has not happened, instead he has travelled back and forth from Hollywood to Hong Kong as a shadow of an actor he once was, simply because the roles are not being given to him....Yet, the Corrupter; I felt, displayed Chow Yun-Fat's talents as an dramatic actor capable of going toe to toe with America's finest; he's suave, smooth, sexy and more importantly cool.The Corrupter is about a cop named Chen, who is one of the best in China Town; unfortunately he is given a new partner, Wallace (Mark Wahlberg) who needs guidance and is a little too 'green' for his own good. Wallace soon realises that in order to find criminals in China Town, you have to go to bed with them...make back alley deals; give something in order to receive something. The acting is of the highest calibre, every one gives a brilliant performance, but Chow rises above them all, even out-shining Mark, the action scenes are again brilliant.

This flick is a downer! Everything about it is just sub-par!Mark Wahlberg and Chou-Yun Fat, two pretty good actors, are wasted in this "snooze" fest. They are two cops, who don't necessarily play by the rules and are asked to bring down some huge, Chinese drug kingpins. However, the close links in ChinaTown working with them are merely playing them. This results in back stabbings, constant profanity, drugs, prostitution, murders, boring gun fights, wasted talent, a car chase scene which shows gratuitous shots of innocent civilians getting gunned down ( that's just not right! ) and a real clunker of an ending which involves the death of Fat's character. The main problems are mainly the script and the directing. Director James Foley, despite making some acclaimed films, just isn't at his best. There are several scenes of the same thing (vulgar shouting, gun fights, etc.) happening over and over again to the point where it's completely old. I know it's a cop film, but it's not a well-executed one. The writers add some suspense to even it all up, but the film comes off as nowhere close to being thrilling.It's not a "beyond bad" film, but it's not really worth a viewing either.

Nick Chen is a tough as nails New York cop who works on both sides of the law. When a new rookie cop is assigned to his unit he sees how the local crime boss tries to corrupt him and Chen reconsiders his ethics. All the while a few twists and turns show who is really playing who.This is by no means a very original movie, especially for Chow Yun-Fat. His first American film, 'The Replacement Killers,' also was kind of a re-run, but what is there to say? He's good at this type of stuff.Just like 'The Replacement Killers' this film was also a flop at the box office and it is probably through its gritty and uncompromising tone. Yeah, there's action and intense shootouts, but it is not like 'Die Hard' or anything. Innocent people die, the ending isn't happy, but what matters is that the film isn't cheesy - it pulls no sucker punches or cheap thrills. It sticks to the characters while keeping the action secondary, but no less intense. The plot too is also pretty interesting and is a little more intricate than 'The Replacement Killers' or Chow Yun-Fat's cult hits from Hong Kong like 'Hard Boiled.' It is not quite a masterpiece of genre, but remains a solid crime thriller nonetheless. 8/10Rated R: strong violence, and profanity