Shen tan
Cinematography:
Siu-keung JengComposer:
Xavier JamauxCast:
Sean Lau, Andy Tien, Gordon Lam, Kelly Lin Hsi-lei, Joseph Kwok-Lun Lee, Karen Lee Choi-ling, Flora Chan Wai-shan, Eddie Cheung, Suet Lam, Jay Lau, Hung Ko (more)Plots(1)
The traditional Hong Kong police film is turned on its head: the imaginative twist being our hero Detective Bun (a role created for Lau Ching Wan) who has the ability to see people's inner personalities or hidden ghosts. Breaking new ground and establishing new cinematic rules, Johnnie To's latest giddily entertaining collaboration with Wai Ka Fai radically raises the level of storytelling in modern film. This ingenious realisation of a supernaturally gifted copper is fast-paced and furious, yet also complex and disturbingly funny. (Eureka Entertainment)
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A very weird film. On the one hand, a very original plot supported by a great acting duo of Andy On and Sean Lau, who gives the ultimate acting performance and the way he investigates is very black-humored and seizure-inducing, but he is still just a schizophrenic lunatic. The downside is the mediocre direction and visuals and the rather very difficult clarity driven by flashbacks and characters who have actually died but still appear, they are not distinguished in any way so very confusing for me. The ending is pretty good, but it's not more than 4*.
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