The premise of this movie was very much Gone Girl-esque. I decided to check out this movie because of its rave reviews.
From the beginning, it was like Gone Girl. (This review might just be glowing praise of Gone Girl, and I'm sorry - but it's relevant)
From the sunlight shots of the missing wife looking beckoningly into the camera, to the flowing white linens as the missing wife smiles and laughs, flashbacks of the happy couple - you know the works.
You discover as the plot goes on that everything is not as it seems. You always think "the husband did it", and I thought that in the beginning scene where He Fei raggedly runs into the police station. He was handsome, and kudos to the actor, but he smelled from the moment he went on scene. You could sense the greasy interior behind the gentleman act.
Spoilers for the ending: Gone Girl did it better. The ending was too hamfisted and implausible, I almost burst out laughing at scenes that were supposed to be thrilling. There were gut wrenching moments, but the whole Oceans 11 mixed with Shutter Island scenario of the theater troupe suddenly arriving on the scene, doctoring images, setting up props within days of the wife's disappearance????? The whole asylum set when they do theater production sets of Romeo and Juliet in a whole another country???? Yeah you lost me.
I was entertained, so I do recommend. The levels of disbelief will be stretched.
From the beginning, it was like Gone Girl. (This review might just be glowing praise of Gone Girl, and I'm sorry - but it's relevant)
From the sunlight shots of the missing wife looking beckoningly into the camera, to the flowing white linens as the missing wife smiles and laughs, flashbacks of the happy couple - you know the works.
You discover as the plot goes on that everything is not as it seems. You always think "the husband did it", and I thought that in the beginning scene where He Fei raggedly runs into the police station. He was handsome, and kudos to the actor, but he smelled from the moment he went on scene. You could sense the greasy interior behind the gentleman act.
Spoilers for the ending: Gone Girl did it better. The ending was too hamfisted and implausible, I almost burst out laughing at scenes that were supposed to be thrilling. There were gut wrenching moments, but the whole Oceans 11 mixed with Shutter Island scenario of the theater troupe suddenly arriving on the scene, doctoring images, setting up props within days of the wife's disappearance????? The whole asylum set when they do theater production sets of Romeo and Juliet in a whole another country???? Yeah you lost me.
I was entertained, so I do recommend. The levels of disbelief will be stretched.