Post by lovevicki on Mar 28, 2005 8:20:01 GMT 7
[glow=red,2,300]Short review of "Goddess of Mercy" from article HK 2004 Top 10 and Comments by YTSL¡²source£ºHong Kong Cinema - View from the Brooklyn Bridge¡³[/glow]
9) GODDESS OF MERCY
Whether we like it or not, Mainland Chinese-Hong Kong co-productions increasingly appear to be the order of the day. In any event, Ann Hui was making movies on the Chinese Mainland decades ago. And while this latest such work of the female doyen of Hong Kong cinema has not been as heralded as, say, 1997¡¯s ¡°Eighteen Springs¡±, my personal opinion is that this heady as well as artistic action-drama with a tough and independent, yet emotional and sensitive, moll for a protagonist actually is qualitatively better plus more populist in nature. All in all, then, I find it a crying shame that that which could boast of having a charismatic leading man in Nicholas Tse and a charming main female in Vicki Zhao Wei was neither all that commercially nor critically well received. At the same time, I do take some solace from the fact that such as the local choice of opening film for the 2004 HKIFF are continuing to be made.
9) GODDESS OF MERCY
Whether we like it or not, Mainland Chinese-Hong Kong co-productions increasingly appear to be the order of the day. In any event, Ann Hui was making movies on the Chinese Mainland decades ago. And while this latest such work of the female doyen of Hong Kong cinema has not been as heralded as, say, 1997¡¯s ¡°Eighteen Springs¡±, my personal opinion is that this heady as well as artistic action-drama with a tough and independent, yet emotional and sensitive, moll for a protagonist actually is qualitatively better plus more populist in nature. All in all, then, I find it a crying shame that that which could boast of having a charismatic leading man in Nicholas Tse and a charming main female in Vicki Zhao Wei was neither all that commercially nor critically well received. At the same time, I do take some solace from the fact that such as the local choice of opening film for the 2004 HKIFF are continuing to be made.
