therewillbeblus wrote: ↑Thu Apr 28, 2022 11:58 am
beamish14 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 28, 2022 10:54 am
Oh my god.
Good? I’ve never seen nor heard about these films
The first one is one of Milkyway's early successes. It's a good movie, a clever little battle of wits between Andy Lau and Lau Ching Wan. I haven't seen the second, because Ekin Cheng.
Early on in the Milkyway pictures days, pre–Election, say, people held this movie up as an example of what Johnnie To and Milkyway could do (of course, The Mission came out the same year, and I think one of these two films is much more accomplished than the other, and it's not this one), but then about a decade of really creative movies, including PTU, Election, Throwdown, Exiled, Mad Detective, Sparrow, Vengeance, Life on Principle, Drug Way, and Blind Detective kind of pushed this film off to the side. Amongst the early Milkyway films, like The Odd One Dies, The Longest Nite, Expect the Unexpected, Too Many Ways to Be No. 1, and A Hero Never Dies, this was the most playful and clever film, and in its' playfulness it's a bit of a harbinger of Milkyway movies to come. It's also an early example of Andy Lau getting the hang of this film acting thing (he becomes much more relaxed and rangy as an actor in this and Fulltime Killer, whereas in the past he was one of the stiffer actors in the HK New Wave), and it features a nicely amused performance by Lau Ching-Wan.
