Mr. Six

Name: Mr. Six
Genre: Action, Drama
Released: December 24, 2015
Duration: 134 min
Rating: 57

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China Lion Film Distribution | Release Date: December 24, 2015 | Not Rated

Summary: A former Beijing crime boss swings back into action when his son is kidnapped by thugs.

Director: Hu Guan

Genre(s): Action, Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 134 min

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Tom Keogh

Dec 25, 2015

A viewer might expect the film’s widescreen, busy images to fill with revenge-action sequences. But in its own way, Mr. Six is much more about a unique man adjusting an out-of-fashion personal code for a new type of crisis in the shadow of his mortality. Read full review

Lee Marshall

Jun 14, 2016

Staying just on the serious side of funny, Feng’s Mr Six is a fine, savoury creation. Read full review

Peter Debruge

Jun 14, 2016

Scored to a beautiful, introspection-oriented saxophone score, Mr. Six surprises by attempting to delve behind Feng’s sometime-inscrutable facade, rather than pushing its leading man toward action. Read full review

Deborah Young

Jun 14, 2016

Where Guan excels is in straight dramatization. Read full review

The Film Stage Zhuo-Ning Su

Jun 14, 2016

Plotted with limited imagination and directed with atypical flatness, Mr. Six features a strong central performance and shares its humanistic concern with Hu Guan’s previous work but is nevertheless an artistic underachiever. Read full review

Nicolas Rapold

Dec 25, 2015

The baggy 137-minute story drowns out Mr. Feng’s assorted sharp moments with hoary family drama and clumsy plotting, and Li Yifeng is generic as Mr. Six’s son. Read full review

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Mrandom

Dec 26, 2015

This movie requires a background in northern China to appreciate its unique cultural aspect. For Westerners, especially those interested in politics, this movie can be particularly interesting because it depicts a nostalgia of the 1950s' and 60s' Beijing. The protagonists grew up from theThis movie requires a background in northern China to appreciate its unique cultural aspect. For Westerners, especially those interested in politics, this movie can be particularly interesting because it depicts a nostalgia of the 1950s' and 60s' Beijing. The protagonists grew up from the streets in Cultural Revolution, the most turmoil era of Chinese capital, therefore established an unique lifestyle and social rule. It is interesting to know that the current president of China was one of them.… Expand

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