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7.1/10
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Rookie policeman Will Ren and his partner, the veteran cop Cham Lau, are pursuing an obsessive and especially brutal murderer of women.Rookie policeman Will Ren and his partner, the veteran cop Cham Lau, are pursuing an obsessive and especially brutal murderer of women.Rookie policeman Will Ren and his partner, the veteran cop Cham Lau, are pursuing an obsessive and especially brutal murderer of women.
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- 14 wins & 26 nominations total
Wai-Chuen So
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A very dark and grim thriller filmed in black & white, mostly in the slums of Hong Kong. This movie is so atmospheric with a soundtrack that compliments it to perfection.
This really is one of the best thrillers I have ever seen. Emotions run high in this true masterpiece of a movie!
This really is one of the best thrillers I have ever seen. Emotions run high in this true masterpiece of a movie!
Excellent crime thriller drama. Yes, the characters could have been a bit more fleshed out, but overall the tone, directing, cinematography and acting were outstanding. Gordon Lam is seriously one of the most under-rated HK actors. After an alphabet soup of "Storm" movies starring the same-old same-old familiar actors in the lead, I had almost given up on HK cinema, but this gives me new hope.
Black and white picture completely increases the beauty and darkness of hong kong environment. Although action scene feel a bit messy, awesome acting.
This is a dark Chinese black and white film noir which is vicious. I would put it in a category with both Seven and Kalifornia. Two detectives, a rookie and a salty veteran investigate the murders of junkie prostitutes. The killer has cut off their hands and the police are stumped by the crimes. The cinematography is excellent and the two leads credible. A completely unpredictable ending make this a must watch film.
Hackneyed narrative that is mercifully saved by some visually inspired production design. The richly constructed look and feel of this film cannot be overstated. From the opening frame, One's senses are immediately assaulted, if not drowned, by the reek and penetrating decay of some saturated underbelly where these token, yet serviceable, characters aptly inhabit. The performances are as effective as the thin and woefully predictable writing will allow, but with as many highly-successful film-making paragons(Wilson Yip, Kin-ye Au, etc.) attached, one might expect a bit more. Nevertheless, the technical team and its bravura display of visual mastery more than successfully manage to compensate for the film's more than obvious weaknesses.
Did you know
- TriviaThe movie is an adaption of The Wisdom Tooth, a 2015 book by Chinese novelist Lei Mi. Director Soi Cheang tried to make a movie out of it in continental China but couldn't, so he set this project aside. A few years after that, he came back to Hong Kong and set out to make a smaller-scale movie (as he was used to direct the Monkey King movies in China). He thus gave the novel to his writer Kin-Yee Au, so that he would adapt it into a movie, while relocating the action to Hong Kong.
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- Runtime
- 1h 58m(118 min)
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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