Simply....breathtakingly brilliant...Phew…breathless…Ha……breathing…what a good movie and what an amazing ride? This is what movies are about, and this is the reason, Neo keeps watching bad HK movies. Dog Bite Dog is not only the Love Battlefield's director best movie ever, but undoubtedly the best movie of the last two years. This is what true HK cinema lovers are waiting for. This is the movie that stamps a huge mark on the viewers and perhaps a place in HK cinema history. To be perfectly honest, Neo haven't been this excited after a movie for years and finally this one delivers. It is that good, it is that impacting and it is that brilliant. As I said before, when I love movie, I overlook its flaws, but this one have none and at the very least, it captured and got hold of my heart. Seriously if you are reading this review, right at this very moment and still haven't watch Dog Bite Dog, go bite yourself and run or whatever straight to the local DVD shop and bite on it! It's a movie you cannot miss! Writing this review right now, within just minutes after viewing this extraordinary experience, I am shocked, moved and absolutely uplifted. Nothing is better than finding a gem in a sea of recycle water and Dog Bite Dog is like that in 2006 HK cinema. I am not exaggerating; it is exactly how I feel right now. For someone who have been criticising Edison for his singing, acting and dancing for almost his whole career with the exception of Jiang Hu, Neo is still shocked to the max, that such a person like Edison is capable of such performance. Not unlike Jet Li's Danny the Dog, director Soi Cheang, uses similar themes, but make the movie 30 times better. It is unforgettable and cruel experience to endure through the brutality of humanity and the meaningless yet meaningful aspect of life.Sam Lee, the actor who deems his way through supporting roles and leading roles in B-movies, have done something that he will be proud of. Perhaps a performance that will change his life and the direction of his acting future; it is a heck of a brilliant and absolutely award winning performance. His brutal eyes and expressions of angry are terrifying and his transformation is utterly and brutally memorable. Sam Lee has matured into an actor and perhaps after years and years of appearing in crappy movies, he has decided to stamp a point about himself. Alright, let's make a bold statement here: SAM LEE WILL WIN BEST ACTOR AWARD FOR 2006 HK FILMS AWARD! Edison Chen, Edison Chen, Edison Chen… what can I say? A transformational performance and a career defining moment, Edison has put out a heck of a memorable performance. As a dog, he is aimless, with ultimate goal of killing for survival and the way he changes throughout his experiences of love and anger is both extraordinary and beautiful to watch. Two thumbs up from Neo and you are officially a better actor than Ekin Cheng.The innocent girl played a role that limits her abilities, but for once it was not a pretty face that shines through, but a performance that underlines the beauty of smile, even when all hopes are lost. She is fighter, a symbol of hope and a passion for love. It is tiny moments of her smile that made the movie all the more credible and also perfectly juxtaposing the brutality with peace within oneself. Love is a power tool, not only to fix things, but changes people and peace within oneself.With that been said, director Soi Cheang is a genius at making emotional packed ending as seen in Love Battlefield and Home Sweet Home. Here, Soi Cheang opts for a level beyond emotional, too smart to be conventional and even shock to be unpredictable. Not to spoil the ending, it is so well done that one can not find any flaws, but then again, maybe Neo overlooked them. What made the movie even better is the outstanding use of scenery and contrasting the rapid fire industry of Hong Kong with the poverty yet underlying romantically charged Cambodia.I am still catching my breath at the moment and to be honest, this movie really made my night. Its been a while that after watching the movie, I watch straight to my lap top and started typing, but in all, I just wanted to share my feelings across, before I forget. It can simply be a movie about a dog, a mad dog finding love, but this isn't just another dog movie. It is a movie about life, the realities that exist in a place not too far away. It is the realism and the brutality that shock us, but ultimately it is the movie as a whole that truly delivers. Dog Bite Dog is the best movie since 2004 and before I end this review, I will repeat myself one more time – Neo just simply love it! (Neo 2006)Neo rates it 10/10www.thehkneo.com

Note: This is more of a semi-review, so if you're still looking forward to seeing the movie, you might not want to read this. However if you wish to avoid a frustrating experience, then read on.Dog Bite Dog is a refreshing change in Hong Kong cinema. As the starting credits came on, I noticed that the movie was produced by a Japanese producer, and directed by Soi Cheaung whom I'm not familiar with. This was enough foreshadowing for me to be prepared for something different from your regular mainstream Hong Kong flick. But I was not prepared for over an hour and a half of disbelief.The movie starts out quite well, with maturing star Edison Chen playing the role of an assassin with the instincts of a killer canine. Gone are the days of the street kid rapper-wannabe, Edison has really come a long way and he plays a role similar to that of Jet Li in Danny the Dog (aka Unleashed). I like Edison, but personal preference could not save the unrealistic scenes in Dog Bite Dog. The storyline is decent, Sam Lee's character has a complex background that I won't spoil, and he's a "bad cop" which most of us would probably enjoy. But for some reason, Edison's character Pang is some kind of super human, he is just invincible to the point where you start to laugh in amusement. In the first encounter with the cops, Pang kills at least two innocent citizens before taking another hostage, while the cops panic and put down their guns. Obviously, Pang manages to escape, but not without killing a cop in the process, and the hostage as well. At this point you'd want to prepare yourself because this is going to happen very often. I think perhaps the director is trying to show the compassionate side of man, as the cops are constantly trying to stop Sam from being too brutal and sympathize for the hostages. This kind of attitude always gets themselves killed however.I didn't take a body count, but Pang must have killed over 50 people in the end. Basically when he needs a car, he goes in, kills the driver and takes the car. In one scene, he enters a fishing boat at night and kills an elderly couple just for fun, and leaves. Yes, director, I understand that he has no feelings. But what I don't understand is why the need to make a complete MOCKERY of the Hong Kong Police Force? In one shootout scene near the end, one of the cops finally snap and take the girl as hostage (Pang's girlfriend apparently) in order to get Pang to release his hostage, a cop. The superior officer tells the snapped cop to release the girl, but then suddenly Pang shoots the cop holding the girl right on the head. He then obviously kills his own hostage, and runs, while the cops stand in disbelief, and me staring in disbelief. Sorry guys, but if this was in America, Pang would probably have like 20 bullets in his body, hostage or not, and I refuse to believe Hong Kong police are stupid enough to stand and watch. When one citizen is killed, it gets blown to ridiculous proportions by the media, one death is a serious thing in HK. There is NO WAY they would deal with a mass murderer like this. There were so many times I was just laughing and shaking my head in sadness, and I found myself fast forwarding the "compassionate" moments of Pang because, I just could not relate with a mass killer no matter what excuse he has, or how he was brought up to be the way he is. In our society, killing people at will is simply unacceptable, no matter if it's your fault or not. Another strange concept was that all the cops, who are supposed to be I'm assuming either Homicide cops or CID, why are they all armed with six shooters? Even regular street uniformed cops are now switching to Glocks, I have no idea why the director and/or producer needed to "dumb down" the cops in order to make their point. The final half hour of the movie was so laughably pathetic, that I found myself telling the story ahead of the movie itself. The girl, whom I never got to know her name because she seems to have a kind of speech impediment, is newcomer Weiying Pei, 18 years of age from Mainland China and she gives a fantastic performance, as well as being naturally beautiful. But what I can't stand about her is the way her presence dumbs down the cops. I can understand them not paying too much attention to a weak and injured girl, but this girl has bashed Sam on the head before, it's obvious she's "with" the criminal. How she is so constantly ignored and underestimated is simply pathetic, predictable, and an insult to the viewers' intelligence.This movie would probably appeal to those who are a bored closet psycho who has dreamed of murdering people for fun after playing too many video games, or if you're simply too tired of the clichéd Hollywood movies. Or if you have a beef with the HKPF and would enjoy watching cops getting owned. It was refreshing, but I can't say I enjoyed it.

I watched the DVD of this movie which also comes with an excellent commentary track (in English). It seems in Cambodia (the subtitles in English say the character is speaking Thai but the movie says Cambodia)a very violent evil man is raising boys to be killers using starvation and training them to fight and kill. He sends Pang to kill some people in China and during the killings a cop's partner is killed. The cop Wai is a loose cannon who is worried about his father who is also a cop who was shot and is in a coma. Wai's chief is his dad's friend and is worried about Wai's erratic behavior. He doesn't know Wai was the one who caught his dad in dealing with drug dealers and shot him and put him into the coma. Pang escapes and hides in a squalid landfill shack where he meets a woman who came here to find her mother and keeps repeating her father won't let her leave (Pang doesn't speak Chinese and doesn't understand this but saves her from her father who appears to be having sex with her maybe this is the reason for Cat III). Wai becomes more and more obsessed with getting Pang but Pang is almost unstoppable. Even after Pang steals a boat and takes the woman to his home where they are married and she becomes pregnant Wai follows and joins the evil man (who's training the boys)making a deal to fight and train so he can get Pang. There is a big showdown between Wai and Pang with the terribly abused woman the major victim and leaving Wai dead and Pang cutting out his child from the dead mother only to die and leave him as the possible next boy to be raised as a killer. This film is beautifully photographed with an excellent soundtrack. There are many very brutal violent scenes. The woman having a long nail pulled out of her foot. Knives to the neck and torso. Guns fired directly to the head. And several very intense beatings. It maybe grim intense and downbeat but it is definitely worth seeing.

It's a bad movie, it seems like there is only 5 police in HK, they were not using there gun and this makes me feel like a Jacky Chan's movie. All the time they were using their gun to point at the suspect only. When they finally use their gun is when they kill each other, what a funny movie. In The movie, it's like all the good guys died without a reason.They story line of the movie also sucks, the story jump here and there and bored people. But if you wanted to see a bloody movie, I think this is only a OK type of movie, I think U.S. made zombie movie is more bloodier than this one