Fresh
Crichton's films drag in dialog bouts, but triumph when action takes over.
Variety Staff, Variety
Overview
An anarcho-absurdist blood-soaked grand guignol indie flick with attitude to burn, this is the pitch perfect youth movie from Hong Kong. A twenty-something punk fancies himself a total player, but the best job he can find is overnight clerk at a convenience store. The other clerk is a cute chick and you’re thinking “rom com,” but then there’s a robbery, a gangster, a shoot-out, and by the time a neighbor is pulling out a homemade bomb, you realize that this violent farce is all about the current situation in Hong Kong where nothing makes sense, the heartless wipe their feet on the hopeless, and you might as well burn it all down because there are no more better tomorrows.
Director and cast
- Derek Tsang Kwok-Cheung as Lau Kin-Ping
- J. Arie as Mabel
- Lam Suet as Convenience Store Boss
- Stanley Fung Shui-Fan as Grandfather
- Keung Ho-man as Yan
- Eric Kwok Wai-Leung as Big Boss
- Anita Chui Pik-ka as Anita Chan Tsz-Ying
- Aaron Chow as Officer Wai
- Edward Ma Chi-wai as Chevis
- Ken Lo Wai-kwong as Kwong
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Fresh
he climactic heist of the gold, with Mr. Connery climbing atop the moving railroad cars, ducking under bridges just before a possible decapitation, is marvelous action footage that manages to be very funny as it takes your breath away.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Fresh
Connery is one of the best light comedians in the movies, and has been ever since those long-ago days when he was James Bond.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
The characters stay largely undeveloped, while -- despite superficially peculiar features -- the robbery is stripped of the ingenious exposition of the novel.
Time Out
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