The Twilight Warriors: Walled In (2024) Review
The Twilight Warriors: Walled In is one of the movies I randomly picked interest in watching because of the cover and also because I wanted to watch an all-fight action movie.
The movie started with a man, Chan Lok-kwun (Raymond Lam — actually my first time seeing him in a movie, or maybe I had seen him before and didn’t take note), who walked up to Mr Big (Sammo Hung — the only face I recognized, but he appeared very old here) to seek a passport to travel out of the country after working in Mr Big’s drug business. However, Mr Big refused to give him the passport. On his way out, angrily leaving the hall, Lok-kwun dipped his hand into a bag, picked one, and ran away. He was then heavily and crazily pursued by Mr Big’s boys, who kept shooting at him, but he kept dodging the bullets. That was how he ran into the Walled City, and Mr Big’s boys couldn’t enter because that wasn’t their territory.
The Walled City:
I was very much amazed by the idea of the Walled City, and I think the city once existed, or maybe still exists, in China. It’s a gigantic building with many blocks of apartments attached in such a way that it has everything needed to live a full life —roads, markets, various shops, churches, and just about everything you can think of. However, it’s not clean; it’s a dirty, village-like, ghetto-style building filled with all kinds of people. It’s the kind of place where they can wake up to see dead bodies on the floor, yet all the occupants go about their daily lives as though nothing happened.
When Lok-kwun ran into the city, the thugs inside began to pursue him as well, but his strong will made him uncatchable even in the midst of knife cuts and blows. Eventually, he was captured by the boss of the Walled City, Cyclone. When Cyclone asked him to explain why he was being chased into the city, Lok-kwun revealed that he had seized Mr Big’s money. Unfortunately, when he opened the bag, he discovered that it contained drugs instead of money.
Cyclone welcomed him, paid off his debt, and gave him the opportunity to work in the city to earn a living. But more trouble came when a man superior to Cyclone discovered Lok-kwun’s true identity — the child of the man who killed his family. Furious, he swore to kill Lok-kwun and hired Mr Big to do the job since Cyclone stood as a barrier. That was how an even bigger war broke out.
The plot of the movie is very interesting — it’s straightforward and connects all the various past lives of the bosses in charge and how they acquired control of the Walled City, especially with all the bloodshed involved. Cyclone, who seemed very powerful with his martial arts skills, was eventually killed, along with Mr Big and the man superior to Cyclone. These deaths happened halfway into the movie, which got me wondering how the movie would remain interesting since all the main villains were already dead.
But the plot surprised me by introducing an even deadlier villain, King, who uses voodoo to fight and makes himself impenetrable by anything, rendering him seemingly unkillable. This man was actually one of Mr Big’s boys, who killed his own boss to gain the throne.
Lok-kwun and his three friends, who had become like brothers, took it upon themselves to fight King in a deadly mission to reclaim the Walled City.
It’s a very entertaining movie with great fight scenes beautifully merged with emotional displays and bits of comedy in between. The fight sequences are thrilling, well-choreographed, and deserve a lot of applause. I must commend all the actors for a job well done because, even though I knew the scenes were not real, they appeared so real that I kept wondering how many days they must have spent rehearsing every bit of those moves. And mind you, there are so many fight scenes in this movie.
By the way, the movie was released 2024. I would rate it 8/10.
Trailer; https://youtu.be/OnNhVxWzmhM?si=HH71Uf4RSQtotKzM
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