Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In
Well Go USA Entertainment | Release Date: August 9, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
77
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
San Francisco ChronicleCary DarlingAug 6, 2024
While the end result, now directed by Soi Cheang (“Mad Fate,” “Limbo”), may not be quite as deliriously over the top as that version might have been, it’s nevertheless a solid entry in the ledger of Hong Kong crime sagas and was a huge hit when released in China earlier this year. Read full review
95
Film ThreatJosiah TealSep 12, 2024
Twilight of Warriors is one of the best action films of 2024 and one of the best martial arts films in recent memory. Read full review
85
Film ThreatAlan NgJan 10, 2025
The film feels like a passing of the torch from some of Hong Kong’s veteran actors to the next generation. It’s sometimes brutal and gory, but I wouldn’t have it any other way. Read full review
80
Screen DailyLee MarshallJul 31, 2024
It’s both an elegy for, and triumph of, Hong Kong genre cinema. Read full review
80
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeJul 31, 2024
Set in the murkily atmospheric underworld of 1980s Hong Kong, wildly entertaining, eye-poppingly violent triad martial arts flick is an old-school throwback to the action cinema heyday of the territory. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsAug 9, 2024
Unbound by physics or any sense of psychological realism, “Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In” is also probably the best comic book adaptation you’ll see this year, featuring a murderer’s row of Hong Kong stars like Louis Koo, Aaron Kwok and Sammo Hung, and featuring the sort of intricate maximalist production design that puts most other blockbusters to shame. Read full review
75
Movie NationRoger MooreAug 1, 2024
It’s historic, set in Kowloon’s long gone but infamous high rise “walled city” slum, and between the over-the-top action, deadpan underreactions and silly supernaturalism, it is laugh-out-loud funny Read full review
75
Slant MagazineBrad HanfordAug 1, 2024
Soi Cheang richly draws the city as both prison and refuge, where brutal exploitation sits alongside the residents’ deep sense of solidarity and cooperation. Read full review
75
The Film StageDaniel EaganJul 31, 2024
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In is a more conventional outing, hemmed in by its multi-generational plot and sentimental twists. But you will not want to miss its action scenes, staged within phenomenal settings. Read full review
70
ColliderAidan KelleyJan 17, 2025
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In is still a more than competent, entertaining, action-packed ride, even if it's not the most original in terms of its plot. Read full review
60
The GuardianSteve RoseJul 31, 2024
Much of that war is waged with a combination of fists, feet, blades and assorted ironmongery; people are routinely hurled through walls, thrown off rooftops and otherwise beaten to a pulp, and the athleticism and fight choreography is impressive, even if the action is edited so frenetically that it’s almost impossible to follow. Read full review
50
VarietySiddhant AdlakhaJul 31, 2024
Its martial arts spectacle is scattered across a sprawling refugees-and-triads saga that, while adequately laying foundation for the aforementioned fisticuffs, is seldom coherent or engaging on its own. Read full review
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