Po.Ju

And this is how you tell a story! Not a boring moment in this movie, amazing performance by the villain, one of the best villains ever! half the film is made at a cost of nothing - and yet these parts are brilliant! So much to learn from this film for future film writers, directors and actors, some compare this to "Die hard" well, no comparison, if in DH you understand the lightness of the plot, and are sure that nothing will harm the hero, here, you are sure of nothing. Great!

Peace Breaker is the Chinese remake of the critically acclaimed 2014 Koren smash hit A Hard Day, and follows the original's plot faithfully, so anyone interested may want to check that out, as I won't put any spoilers on the plot here.

As a way of circumventing the rigid Chinese censorship, the entire story is set in Malaysia, a country with a large ethnic Chinese minority and where Chinese is among the official languages, instead of in mainland China. If anyone wonders, certain major story elements (police corruption, drug dealing, generally portraying a city as a fairly dark place) would make it difficult if they were set in a mainland city. Perhaps for the same censorship reason, a flawless positive mainland cop character is put in the film and is played by a handsome actor, but the character is unfortunately paper thin and uninteresting. Setting the story in HK would pose different problems, such as having everyone speaking in Cantonese which would be unappealing in the mainland market.

Aaron Kwok and Qianyuan Wang both gave stellar performances. They are simply the bread and butter of the film, and I can't imagine this film without their notable acting. The supporting cast is actually the weakest part of the film, as the characters are both under-written (some with terrible Chinese TV opera level dialog) and uninspired. TV-presenter-turned-singer-turned-actress Liu Tao plays Aaron Kwok's wife, but her acting is no match of her on screen husband and this is painfully obvious in almost every scene they appear together in. The technical departments have done a good job, and the script obviously benefited from the brilliance of the original, and the localization added plenty of working humor into the story. Overall, this is a fairly solid remake.

7/10

I didn't watch the original and believed it's good too. The director well controls over the development pace of the plot, and the performance of the actors. Also it's interesting to see what chemistry will create when a hooligan cop meets up a villain. Never thought Aaron Kwok can do well in dark humor movie, the scenes like he is holding the balloon in the morgue and how he reacts to Wang's invitation for eating noodle. All these are so funny, entertaining and exciting. I may watch the original later.

The reversion is a terribly scripted, poorly directed and laughable acted product. Aaron Kwok did a poor job to play the corrupt detective role from the very beginning, his acting was just horrible; rigid, exaggerated and pretentious. He is supposed to be an A-list actor and a star, but in this film, he only showed what he was short of.

The locality had moved to the southeast Asia. Tryng to avoid hitting a dog then hit a human instead was the only watchable segment. Then the ridiculous unreasonable scenes started to come up one after another. Picking up the corpse and putting into his trunk was the most ridiculous scene that only conveniently served the following up ridiculous consequential scenarios and plots, unavoidably push this film into a very painful viewing. The screenplay was such a weak and moronic script, full of unnatural flaws and plot holes big enough to drive a truck through. Terrible through and through, man.

Some people like it. Some others don't. Me, I like it. I think its OK.

The movie has some good action fun dialogue and humor, very typical in this Hong Kong film genre, and i liked it.

Lead super star and one of the "4 heavenly kings" Aaron Kwok - who never seem to age - did a fine job as Gao, the corrupt Hong Kong cop and loving family man trying to cover his wrongdoings.

Well-established Chinese actress Liu Tao - acting as Gao's wife - did great as well, looking as cute as ever. And actress with so much more success awaiting for her.

However, the other actors unfortunately did not hit the mark.

The plot adaptation is decent, even though expected as the movie is based on a known Korean production.

I watched the film in Pattaya, Thailand, where it was titled "Peace Breaker."

Wait for the closing credits to see two additional cool scenes.

Waiting for Aaron Kwok's coming movies.