Just not my cup of tea. Feeling disappointed. Ruinned my evening.

Gritty Johnnie To inspired gangster film following three criminals, The Kings of Thieves, passed their prime wanting to relive their glory days with one final heist after a rumor spreads in the underworld about their fated reunion . ------------------------------------------------------------------- Kwai , an identity thief, lives his life under multiple aliases and is wanted for the murder of three officers three years ago . He camps out at his old partners house and plots on robbing a Gold Shop when he catches wind of the rumor ..

Yip , and his band of bandits , have been in hiding since a bank robbery turned shootout with police . He and his boys have gone legit and sell cheap electronics when they catch wind of the rumor ..

Cheuk is a loud and brazen mobster who kidnaps high-power people and holds them for ransom . He grows bored of his mundane criminal life and wishes for new excitement , when he catches wind of the rumor ..

Cheuk put the word out in the street he's looking for Yip and Kwai , and he pays for information . Kwai, realizing petty robberies will get him nowhere , he decides to get in contact with Cheuk and accept his offer . Yip , after being disrespected by multiple groups of authority who are unaware of his dark past , decides to pick up the AK once again ..

At the end of the film, "Let everything follow the wind" is simply a stroke of god, rendering all the historic heaviness and fatalistic sadness to the extreme. The film is written about the trivial life of three bandits, as well as the repressed, unwilling and eager heart. This is by no means a gangster film that celebrates loyalty or pleasure. It is more like an ambitious historical documentary that maps the grandest historical transformation of 1997 with stories in the underground world.

When the politicians gathered in the square and shook hands with each other under the salute, the thief king was killed, arrested, and encircled in the broken alley, accompanied by dull gunshots. The fate of the three of them is so kink together with the big time, vicissitudes of life mysterious beyond words. They have brought the curtain down on an era for themselves and for Hong Kong.