Heaven and Earth

I had the chance in 2021 to sit down and watch the 1994 Hong Kong movie titled "Heaven and Earth" (aka "Tin yue dei"). And I must admit that I was looking forward to doing so, as the movie had Andy Lau as the lead actor, and he usually makes rather good movies. Now, I hadn't heard about this movie before now in 2021 as I sat down to watch it.

And while "Heaven and Earth" is watchable, it is hardly a great movie, nor was it an outstanding addition to the gangster and drug-related movies. "Heaven and Earth" is, however, the type of movie that you will watch once and most likely never again, unless you are a huge fan of Andy Lau.

The storyline in the movie was just too mainstream, and it was something that had been seen before in other movies that managed to fare equally well or better. So on that account then writers Aychi Chan and David Chi-wai Chan didn't really manage to impress me with this 1994 movie.

To me it was just a prolonged storyline that had too little momentum to it to really be a storyline that I could immerse myself into and properly enjoy. Too little just transpired throughout the course of the movie. And it didn't help much that the movie's script suffered from being way too predictable.

I wasn't impressed with "Heaven and Earth" and as such, my rating of it lands on a less than mediocre four out of ten stars.