MOVIE COMPANY: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX
CAST: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Ekin Cheng, Kelly Chen, Toru Nakamura and Cecelia Cheung.
DIRECTED BY: Jingle Ma
DURATION: 101 minutes
On the marriage day of Macy, Her bridegroom Takahashi does not show up. Macy comes to Tokyo to look for him. She meets Tommy, an interior designer who wants to collect debt from Takahashi, and Lenny a private eye who is hired by a gangster boss to spy on Takahashi. During the investigation, these three persons soon find that they are in conflict with the Japanese underworld gang.
DVD REVIEW:
I was highly anticipating movie. My favorite HK actors and actresses are in this movie including Toru Nakamura (GEN-X COPS) as the bad guy again.
This movie had a lot of potential and it looked very good as if it was like a art movie. What I mean by that is utilizing sound and the camera to create like a dance for the action scenes. Almost like Woo style but totally different. Make sense?
Anyway, the movie is like watching a James Bond and Avengers movie in one. Pretty cool to watch but in terms of being very satisfied with it, I felt it was average. Ok.
As for the DVD, the video is beautiful and the music is utilized in the DTS track. Btw, this DVD version is the first HK to utilize DTS.
As for special features, similar to all Universe DVD’s but with the inclusion of a making of. Although I don’t have a DVD-Rom, I’m not sure if this DVD carries the video game, screen saver and wallpaper like the VCD version did.
Otherwise a cool movie and the action scenes to be done in a different way was quite different but the movie does not motivate me to watch it many times. Even though it has Kelly and Cecelia.
THE MOVIE: C+
THE DVD EXTRAS: B+
THE DVD OVERALL:Â B