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      • At first, this looks as if it's going to be a knockabout comedy with fisticuffs or a sentimental celebration of the good old days, and there are intimations of a father-son redemption movie or a moral drama with a climactic showdown. But it never quite hardens into predictability; it changes tack and dodges expectations, almost to the very last.
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  2. The movie does a nice job of showing community life in the laid back old hutongs that still exist in Beijing and while the plot is a little slow it develops well. Since this film was designed to appeal to a domestic audience a lot of the nuance will be lost on foreigners.

  3. Dec 23, 2015 · Mr. Six. Directed by Hu Guan. Action, Drama. 2h 14m. By Nicolas Rapold. Dec. 23, 2015. Mr. Six is a grumpy old fixture on his Beijing back street, ready to scold or shoot a withering look....

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  4. Chinese director Guan Hu's Mr Six is a comic, elegiac film that never settles into one particular genre or mood. Its central character is a former gangster, Zhang Xuejun (Feng Xiaogang) known as ...

  5. Mr. Six is an interesting movie that subverts your expectations. It's advertised as, and the first 20 minutes plays exactly like, a riff on the Taken formula (i.e. old badass comes out of retirement to brutally wipe out the thugs who've f*cked with his family).

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    • Huayi Brothers Pictures
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  6. Dec 24, 2015 · Movie review of “Mr. Six”: An aging, former gangster (Feng Xiaogang) with a serious heart problem is drawn into a protracted conflict when his son is taken prisoner by some of Beijing’s ...

  7. Jan 6, 2016 · While the aged former crime boss of the title (Mainland director Feng Xiaogang) embodies a stoic, leathery toughness worthy of Eastwood, or prime Charles Bronson, there’s little of the physical heroic showmanship – save for perhaps a pinky-twisting or two – evident in this gangster tale.

  8. Sep 9, 2015 · Guan Hu casts fellow director Feng Xiaogang as a peacekeeper who realizes just how little Beijing’s younger generation respects the old ways

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