Special ID, however, brought this case to a lower depth. This has got to be one of the worst movie of the year. Again reiterating my belief that Hong Kong movies are just bad right now. Either that, or we're just getting all the lousy Hong Kong movies into Brunei.
The way the director told the story was juvenile. So juvenile that even Donnie Yen's juvenile character was just uncomfortable to watch. When he's not throwing punches, he was just bad.
And when punches were thrown, there's no sense of what's happening around the main character because everyone else seemed to just stop and watch.
Case in point, when Tian Jing's character was introduced as someone who is adept in martial arts, she rushed one guy out of a mob, and continued to beat on him while the rest of the mob stood there watching and offered no help whatsoever.
Plus Tian Jing was such a bad choice for the role. She is skinnier than a chopstick and has a face that's so young and innocent that I couldn't believe the character she's playing. Not to mention she's supposed to be a high ranking police officer, yet she resorted many a time to childish name-calling. Thus proving that the script was horrible.
This also showed that the Hong Kong movie industry still cares more for, and cast pretty faces rather than finding the proper and right look and feel for characters. And it's really hurting the movie and dumbing the audience.
Ronald Cheng once again played a role that didn't seem any different from any characters he's played before. I don't watch many Hong Kong movies or many of his movies, so why is it that when I saw him here it felt like I've seen him a thousand times?
The only that I liked was Colin Chou and the character he played, but too bad, nothing really happened with him.
And what's with the English names of movie characters in Hong Kong? Another Sunny? Who uses that name anymore? This is the 21st century, not 1980s.
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