If you enjoy watching a man being repeatedly beaten about the head with a log or seeing a woman hacked apart by a shovel, or if you like watching a small boulder repeatedly smashed into a man's skull or seeing a person being crushed to pulp in an oil drum, then Johnnie To's "Election" is the film for you. A repellent movie filled with gratuitous violence, "Election" is bound to find an appreciative audience among those who like their cinematic criminals noisy, stupid and deadly. Perhaps director To is really mocking the vile people in his film who are all striving for control of a criminal underground society in Hong Kong.

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