High&Low: The Movie (2016)

Great visuals, fights, brotherhood and street vibe

“When you were in that coma, it was like a living hell. At that moment, time stopped for me” - You threw these words to your friend’s face, who just woke up from a coma, and then in the next minute you beat him to nearly dead again lol.

Although I didn’t enjoy this movie as much as the first series, I gave it the same rating. I think it’s a great movie, with great visuals, fights, street vibe, great music and brotherhood, as expected from the first series. I loved it, especially the final battle at the end when the five S.W.O.R.D gangs decided to team up and fight against Kohaku and those bad guys working for a big South Korean mafia group, in order to protect the town where they were born and raised from those dangerous criminals. I didn’t expect this saga to get involved in serious political matters, but it did and I love that. I think politics exists everywhere, and everything and everyone is involved in politic matters, whether we acknowledge or not.

To sum up, the Korean mafia group wanted to use Kohaku to destroy the S.W.O.R.D gangs to destroy their rival, Kuryu Group, which is a big Japanese yakuza organization. They both wanted to take over the S.W.O.R.D district for a new illegal construction. The Kuryu Group had been using wealth and power to take control over the area for years, including bribing to the corrupt police with dirty money earned by committing several serious crimes in the area, such as drug manufacturing, murder, and human trafficking aiming at young women and girls. I think they can be considered as the main antagonist and the biggest threat to the allied S.W.O.R.D. gangs. In this movie, it was revealed that their goal is to destroy the 5 gangs to construct an illegal, government-backed casino used to conceal political corruption.

Those guys working for the Korean mafia group is just as bad as the Kuryu Group. In this movie, those evil crimes I mentioned above were committed by them. Ironically, it was that gross criminal Seungri who played the role of that group’s leader. I can’t stand his disgusting face and voice, and also wonder what he was thinking and feeling when he was offered to play this role, when he is also a disgusting criminal himself in real life. I bet that sick psychopath was just having fun showing a bit part of his true self to the world without anyone realizing.

I felt so bad for the Rude Boys gang, when this time a lot of their people were brutally killed, and their leader was seriously wounded and probably even terminally ill and could die any time soon. They are also the poorest among the gangs. Basically they are a found family including orphaned people, abandoned by their own parents since they were born, and live in a dump. Oh my god, whenever I think about them, it’s so heartbreaking.

I couldn’t fully enjoy the movie mainly because I couldn’t stand the face of that disgusting psychopath and those lame Might Warriors dudes whom I already disliked since the second season of the main series.

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