From now on, if I see a movie produced by Raymond Wong, I'm going to run the other way.
Chinese popcorn flicks are still unwilling to invest more into the quality. Casting still revolves around pretty faces rather than actual talent or what would be a good fit in terms of character and actor.
Bounty Hunters boasts a cast of beautiful and good looking faces. But that's about it. The script was a mess and required viewers to shut off our brains and not ask questions. The intention and motivation of the villain, who looked like he just jumped out of a Japanese manga or anime, had no real substance. At the end of the movie it was still unclear how he ended up where he was and how he still had such loyal followers.
While the main male leads in Lee Min Ho and Wallace Chung served adequately for what their roles required, Tiffany Tang to me was a big miscast. She's supposed to be a fighter (god knows how) and yet her slender frame and stick-like limbs convinced otherwise. Furthermore, there were no chemistry between her and her love interest.
What made it worse was, watching it in Malaysia, the original Mandarin-speaking movie has been dubbed into Cantonese. Unless it's animation, the quality of a movie just dropped a few points because it's dubbed. Plus it's between Mandarin and Cantonese, it's not entirely that difficult to understand if you only spoke one.
I believe the movie would have fared better had they gotten a better cast that could act the part, had chemistry, and be consistent in its storytelling and direction. There were genuine laughs and decent action sequences in here, just overshadowed by all the other cons.
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