This is a low budget movie about good intentioned cops taking the law into their own hands to take out the bad guys. With some kung-fu fighting mixed in. When it came to the cops trying to frame and wipe out the bad guys, it just wasn't all that interesting. Nor was it all that entertaining to watch. In another words it just wasn't one of the great Hong Kong crime syndicate movie or anything like that. So I just wanted to get to the fight scenes. Which is very very few in this movie. There is two main things that stands out about this movie. The first, is the fight between Donnie Yen and Wu Jing. The second is the ending, which I just didn't expect. Besides that this is a watchable flick, but not really a stand out movie.6/10

Hong Kong lives under the shadow rule of crime lord Wong Po (the ageless Sammo Hung Kam-Bo). This reign was thought to have ended with evidence enough to put him in jail, but the key witness is killed together with his wife. The detective leading the case Chan Kwok Chung (Simon Yam) adopts the orphaned child of the victims and promises a no-holds-barred revenge. Time however is short, as Chung is diagnosed with brain cancer. This forces his hand to take an approach which is borderline lawless.With less than two days left before he has to retire Chung and his team of elite police decide to take matters into their own hands and stop at nothing to get their man (supplanting evidence, killing weak links to fabricated charges and terrorising witnesses). This however does not fit well with the replacement inspector Ma Kwun (Donnie Yen), who confronts the team about their methods...A dastardly movie trying to sway in the direction of "Infernal Affairs" with a martial arts twist to it, it does manage to imprint a touch of class to the story with some almost art-house scenes and underline it with one terrific fight scene in a back alley (Donnie Yen vs Jacky Wu is quite intense and the length of sequences that go on without cuts / montages is impressive).Nonetheless the movie fails badly in the basics. Elements of back-story are constantly fed into the story in an attempt to flesh out characters, their motivations and add some dramatic punch. However these are poorly dealt with adding false notes throughout and seem forcibly attached severely limiting the dramatic flow of the movie. Below par melodramatic dialogues don't help proceedings as do severe plot flaws.The most damning is the attempt to manipulate video data in order to frame Wong Po for murder, when any sane policeman would have just used the available material to press charges for attempted murder and complicity to murder (both actions evidently filmed on tape without necessity to manipulate the video). Additionally since when is a videotape with someone hitting a man with a golf club followed by a shot of his associate shooting a bullet into the guys brain not enough to put someone in jail? These aren't the only such situations, which scream lazy scriptwriting.The movie does end with a sucker-punch (albeit preceded by a laughable not-checking-if-the-guy-you-beat-up-is-actually-dead scene) that deservedly gets a lot of praise, but all in all is too little, too late to actually repair the faulty unbelievable story.

If you want to understand Kill Zone, you need at least a small grasp of the eastern concept of karma. Basically it means, that bad things that somebody does, will sooner or later backfire at him. This is the central theme of this movie.Kill Zone is a gritty police thriller about a bunch of cops aiming at taking down a crime lord. There are no real heroes in this, though. Every character sooner or later leaves the boundaries of moral behavior, and yes, there will be some kind of payback.Unfortunately this also makes it hard to root for any of the characters, although they are not completely unlikeable and their motives are understandable. Another problem is, that to remain within it's theme, the story stresses probabilities at times.If you want to watch this merely for the martial arts, be aware that the fight scenes only make up a small part of this movie. On the other hand they are excellently choreographed. The often mentioned, furious back alley knife vs. baton fight, might be one of the greatest martial arts scenes ever put on film.

I read the reviews on IMDb, one superlative after another was used to describe how good this movie was. After some good movies like Kung Fu Hustle, Kung Pow and Shaolin Soccer I was really in the mood for another great martial art movie. Well, let me tell you the true story. The script of the movie is what we call very thin, sometimes stupid and let's not forget the stupid in between scenes or did I used the word stupid already? The latter could be bearable if the movie wasn't so incredibly boring, The action scenes, some described as the best of the last decade are not bad, but to call them good? They reminded me of 80's martial art movies fighting scenes with one big exception, in the 80's the scenes were good. Save your money and watch Kung Fu Hustle, Kung Pow or Shaolin Soccer instead.