I always like it when East meets West so I had high hopes for this movie, which is a horror with Tony Leung Ka Fai and David Morse as the two collaborating cops investigating a series of supernatural deaths. They're both good actors so it's very disappointing that the movie decides to focus more on Leung's background melodrama than the supernatural elements of the story. I mean, they plugged this movie as a horror, so I didn't really need to know about his exposing corruption on the police force, his crazy criminal cousin, or his apparent lack of a sex drive. And when the few horror scenes do come on, they sometimes wander into FX-ed out fantasy sequences that don't work.
Rene Liu won best supporting actress at the Hong Kong Film Awards for this movie and I've no idea why. She's not unconvincing but it's not much of a role. Sometimes I think the Hong Kong-ers judge acting by different standards - many of their past winners have been quite inexplicable.
Rene Liu won best supporting actress at the Hong Kong Film Awards for this movie and I've no idea why. She's not unconvincing but it's not much of a role. Sometimes I think the Hong Kong-ers judge acting by different standards - many of their past winners have been quite inexplicable.