Giving the house a massive spring clean,I started gathering up DVDs that I've been meaning to take into the local CEX for cash/credit for far too long. While getting the discs in order,I spotted a Hong Kong flick which I had completely forgotten about having purchased! With a Hong Kong Challenge taking place on ICM, I took advantage of this good luck and met the heroic duo.
View on the film:
Looking back towards the Heroic Bloodshed sub-genre of Hong Kong's last Action boom, the screenplay by Alan Yuen & Adrian Kwan welds the major bond/loyalty in blood theme of the genre with the slick complexities of the modern psychological Thriller. Peeling away in flashbacks at the final to what triggered the events, the writers give the movie a slippery, unpredictable atmosphere,lit by absurd slides into "mindhunting" and hypnotism,which are solidly held by Ken and Lai's exchange in mind-games. Running the action scenes with an earthy grit from being filmed on streets, director Benny Chan and cinematographer give the movie a glossy appearance,with darting whip-pans hitting the targeted mind-games of the heroic duo.
View on the film:
Looking back towards the Heroic Bloodshed sub-genre of Hong Kong's last Action boom, the screenplay by Alan Yuen & Adrian Kwan welds the major bond/loyalty in blood theme of the genre with the slick complexities of the modern psychological Thriller. Peeling away in flashbacks at the final to what triggered the events, the writers give the movie a slippery, unpredictable atmosphere,lit by absurd slides into "mindhunting" and hypnotism,which are solidly held by Ken and Lai's exchange in mind-games. Running the action scenes with an earthy grit from being filmed on streets, director Benny Chan and cinematographer give the movie a glossy appearance,with darting whip-pans hitting the targeted mind-games of the heroic duo.