The film is too similar to a legal program, making the characters in the film appear very flat and thin. Although Zhang Lei in the film is not the common facialized police image in the main theme movie, the whole process of hunting down the drug dealers is the scene where he pretends to be a drug dealer joint, but his inner emotional world has not been portrayed and displayed. The drug dealer Cai Tianming is the most complicated character in the film, but it is only sinister and vicious, and not much new.
The gunmen in Johnnie To’s previous gangster movies " The Mission " and " Fong juk Exilé " always have a bit of brotherhood, and there is always a bit of helplessness, which makes people quietly moved. "Death of a Hostage" is also cold in style, but the three-legged leopard in the film still makes people see the brotherly loyalty. But in "Drug War", this Hong Kong movie's unique Jianghu atmosphere disappeared, and the characters lacked memorable things. The characters of the pros and the villains looked rigid, leaving only the cold and empty appearance.
