I've watched this film 3 days ago in the Hong Kong International Film Festival. It's the opening film for the Festival.As usual, the feedback from audiences is great and there are applauses at the end of the movie. I haven't been impressed however; only think it's little amazing to see the policeman losing the gun becoming an accidental hero.
The overall acting is what makes me give not high credit to the movie. Most of the side casts are acting strange or in a way over/under acted. The main casts though more professional are not giving unexpected performance. I'm not convinced the director has spent adequate time in directing the actors' performance. Probably he emphasizes on the story and other directing skills rather than acting performance to bring up the message.
The music too is a little weird. Maybe the director has wanted to give a kind of absurb atmosphere but what comes out is something not matching with the visual images. I can't say which one is inferior. Might be the music is what actually the director has wanted but he hasn't been able to provide an atmosphere in the visual image matching the music and what he wanted to create.
It's a little fun overall but absolutely not a great movie. The "dark" society the director wants to create and emphasize isn't impressive. I'd rather he goes more extreme or puts up some contrast for comparison.
The overall acting is what makes me give not high credit to the movie. Most of the side casts are acting strange or in a way over/under acted. The main casts though more professional are not giving unexpected performance. I'm not convinced the director has spent adequate time in directing the actors' performance. Probably he emphasizes on the story and other directing skills rather than acting performance to bring up the message.
The music too is a little weird. Maybe the director has wanted to give a kind of absurb atmosphere but what comes out is something not matching with the visual images. I can't say which one is inferior. Might be the music is what actually the director has wanted but he hasn't been able to provide an atmosphere in the visual image matching the music and what he wanted to create.
It's a little fun overall but absolutely not a great movie. The "dark" society the director wants to create and emphasize isn't impressive. I'd rather he goes more extreme or puts up some contrast for comparison.