{"id":17021,"date":"2024-12-08T20:00:34","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T01:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17021"},"modified":"2024-12-08T14:27:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T19:27:59","slug":"twilight-of-the-warriors-walled-in-2024-soi-cheang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17021","title":{"rendered":"Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (2024, Soi Cheang)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think the notes I took while watching this can stand on their own:<\/p>\n<p>Girl Fishball&#8217;s prost mom gets beaten to death<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s trying to save up for a fake ID but gets into gambling with the boys<br \/>\nMusic is too big but maybe that&#8217;s the 1980s setting<br \/>\nThis is 1986?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/walled1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Raymond is the &#8220;employed cop&#8221; (?) of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/16206\">Detective vs. Sleuths<\/a><\/em><br \/>\nCyclone&#8217;s doctor is looking for dead Jim&#8217;s son to kill his whole family<br \/>\nChau is the doc, Lui killed his family, Jim was Lui&#8217;s killer who seems modeled after Daniel Day Lewis in <em>Gangs of NY<\/em><br \/>\nJim is Koo&#8217;s <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14157\">Throw Down<\/a><\/em> costar<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/walled3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Boss Tiger lost an eye to Jim, Boss Chau his family, and Cyclone killed Jim<br \/>\nCyclone was secret friends with Jim and smuggled his family out of town after killing<br \/>\nOur guy is Jim&#8217;s son, whitehair doc Chau is pissed<br \/>\nThey spent a billion dollars recreating the neighborhood for this film, but needed these guys to play different ages in the 1960s and 1980s and threw some talcum in their hair<br \/>\nGravity-defying fights, not going for realism despite the kowloon recreation<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/walled2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>AV is guy with underwear mask<br \/>\nIt uses the godzilla (??)<br \/>\nThey all butcher each other while Lok is incapacitated<br \/>\nSome of the goofiest action moves since <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/16483\">Dragon Inn<\/a><\/em><br \/>\nAlmost everyone is dead and the cops have Lok<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/walled4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Sammo&#8217;s sunglasses guy King uses this fight to move in and take over<br \/>\nKing kills his boss Sammo after killing Cyclone<br \/>\nKing&#8217;s deal is that he is physically indestructible<br \/>\nThe action is too choppy, but decently cool<br \/>\nI saw a lady for a few seconds, must have been a mistake<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/walled5.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think the notes I took while watching this can stand on their own: Girl Fishball&#8217;s prost mom gets beaten to death He&#8217;s trying to save up for a fake ID but gets into gambling with the boys Music is too big but maybe that&#8217;s the 1980s setting This is 1986? Raymond is the &#8220;employed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,32,2914,2940,2286],"class_list":["post-17021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-hong-kong","tag-louis-koo","tag-sammo-hung","tag-soi-cheang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17061,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17021\/revisions\/17061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}