I only have the smallest clue how and why Johnnie To still makes stuff like this work. "Stuff" being a combination of grand operatic Hong Kong Heroic Bloodshed, absurdist humor, male bonding and an actual interest, if not love for, his characters, most of it in the same scenes at once.
Also there is this palpable sense of unpredictability, even though all genre conventions are in place. You know roughly what will happen next, but the how and why are merrily dancing over borders you weren't even sure existed.
And it's not even his best film.
Saturday, September 1, 2007
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