Sunday, September 2, 2007

Three short things about Johnnie To

Election 2
Probably even more grim and disconcerting than the first part. The plot is really no way to ingratiate oneself with the Chinese government. What I tend to call "a great film".

Running out of Time
Much slighter and quirkier action-comedy thingie. Lau Ching Wan is wonderful as only cop with a brain in town. Very fun.

Running out of Time 2
Could possibly be a graceful, if worse sequel, but smarmy Ekin Cheng and his Magical Hair do not a charismatic criminal mastermind make. If he at least would stop grinning. The script could have used one or two ideas, too.

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