This review contains minor spoiler
Ok. People outside Greater China need to know that Mainland China has established a quota system on foreign films , which HK production is count as one of them. However, production can bypass this quota by making the film Sino-HK co-production, which requires Mainland China investment as we as casting Mainland Chinese actor and actress. I don't mind the storyline may be censored to fit the regulation of the Central Government, but could the director cast someone that really able to act? The Mainland Chinese actor and actress in this film are pale and looks like a filler.
There is some artistic imagination such as the dance room of Béthanie was CG into urban build up area, but casting Mainland Chinese actor or actress into supposed HK Cantonese speaking role, is odd already, and then sometimes the director even forget to add Cantonese dubbing into that role. So that did he/she in-film character has something wrong to forget he/she mother tongue? I already don't mind the artistic imagination of losing phone coverage in HK, or the mad killer that survived in the wild for many years.
And then for Andy Lau and Sammi. It seems due to the cliff on the supply of talented actor and actress of HK, the film still rely on big cast to carry the whole film. Andy Lau is 50 when this film is released, so that he may still fit the role, but Sammi in her 40, as a sidekick, which her classmate is pregnant in the film, seems way too old . Probably on casting people that age-suitable to the film verse marketing, the director choose marketing, so that the film may commercially successful, but bad at trying to make audience to immense into the story.
Ok. People outside Greater China need to know that Mainland China has established a quota system on foreign films , which HK production is count as one of them. However, production can bypass this quota by making the film Sino-HK co-production, which requires Mainland China investment as we as casting Mainland Chinese actor and actress. I don't mind the storyline may be censored to fit the regulation of the Central Government, but could the director cast someone that really able to act? The Mainland Chinese actor and actress in this film are pale and looks like a filler.
There is some artistic imagination such as the dance room of Béthanie was CG into urban build up area, but casting Mainland Chinese actor or actress into supposed HK Cantonese speaking role, is odd already, and then sometimes the director even forget to add Cantonese dubbing into that role. So that did he/she in-film character has something wrong to forget he/she mother tongue? I already don't mind the artistic imagination of losing phone coverage in HK, or the mad killer that survived in the wild for many years.
And then for Andy Lau and Sammi. It seems due to the cliff on the supply of talented actor and actress of HK, the film still rely on big cast to carry the whole film. Andy Lau is 50 when this film is released, so that he may still fit the role, but Sammi in her 40, as a sidekick, which her classmate is pregnant in the film, seems way too old . Probably on casting people that age-suitable to the film verse marketing, the director choose marketing, so that the film may commercially successful, but bad at trying to make audience to immense into the story.