The Mission (1999 film)

The Mission Chinese is a 1999 Hong Kong crime film produced and directed Johnnie To, and starring Anthony Wong, Francis Ng, Jackie Lui, Lam Suet, and Simon Yam.

Film producers Roy Lee and Doug Davison, along with their production company Vertigo Entertainment, have planned an American remake of The Mission which is to be distributed by Universal Pictures, with Peter Berg as the films director.The Mission was well received. In a 2004 interview with director Johnnie To for the website GreenCine, Sean Axmaker states that The Mission is the best crime film to come from Hong Kong in years. Its austere and still, beautifully composed and tense, and the characters are professional and efficient, positioning themselves for efficiency and communicating and interacting silently while on the job. Similarly, an overview of Tos body of work that precedes an interview for the magazine Cineaste refers to the film as Tos masterpiece, a brilliantly conceived, shot, and edited gangster film. ........

Source: Wikipedia