I don't get why this movie got such a bad rating? I would give this at least a 9 if not 10. If you are looking for a kung fu movie, then this is not one definitely, but it doesn't make it a bad movie. It's like rating giving a horror movie a 1 because it's not funny.
The summary that someone put in IMDb is totally misleading. It's none of that. It should be something like "Sze To Bo, the former karate champion did not take part in the final karate championship competition and gave up karate from then on. What happens to him 2 years ago??"
This movie is worth watching twice in a row just by seeing how the director, Johnny To, hide the fact that the main character is blind. It wasn't until last quarter of the movie does he show more obvious trail that he is blind. If you like Sixth Sense style movie, this is definitely similar. Aside from that, the main plot shows the people got block by problem and by confronting the problem, they found the process enjoyable.
Sze To Bo: blind but finally continue to enjoy karate at the end Aaron: his arm is wounded but from that, he found new moves to throw with one arm Ying Chow Yee: Her disire to be an actress made her life enjoyable.
Aside from the main plot, there are several scenes that are handled exceptionally well: - red balloon was block (another metaphor) and see how the 3 main character find getting around the problem enjoyable. - money chase scene where Louis Koo was running and running and running. It was his turning point of the movie where he found life is not meaningless.
This firm was not meant to be very commerical just like PTU, it's darker and require more thoughts than Breaking News type movies.
The summary that someone put in IMDb is totally misleading. It's none of that. It should be something like "Sze To Bo, the former karate champion did not take part in the final karate championship competition and gave up karate from then on. What happens to him 2 years ago??"
This movie is worth watching twice in a row just by seeing how the director, Johnny To, hide the fact that the main character is blind. It wasn't until last quarter of the movie does he show more obvious trail that he is blind. If you like Sixth Sense style movie, this is definitely similar. Aside from that, the main plot shows the people got block by problem and by confronting the problem, they found the process enjoyable.
Sze To Bo: blind but finally continue to enjoy karate at the end Aaron: his arm is wounded but from that, he found new moves to throw with one arm Ying Chow Yee: Her disire to be an actress made her life enjoyable.
Aside from the main plot, there are several scenes that are handled exceptionally well: - red balloon was block (another metaphor) and see how the 3 main character find getting around the problem enjoyable. - money chase scene where Louis Koo was running and running and running. It was his turning point of the movie where he found life is not meaningless.
This firm was not meant to be very commerical just like PTU, it's darker and require more thoughts than Breaking News type movies.