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Hong Kong Movie Review: Overheard (竊聽風雲)

Tonight I managed to sneak into the HK premiere of 'Overheard' (竊聽風雲), starring Lau Ching Wan, Louis Koo and Daniel Wu.  Here's a brief non-spoiler review.   ( my pics from the premiere are here)

The three leads play police officers who are experts in electronic surveillance.  They are assigned to a case of suspected insider stock trading. As you can probably guess, they hear something dangerious and one thing leads to another and next thing you know they're 'in too deep'. 

The movie is pretty well written, good dialogue, etc.  it even has some social commentary on HK's day-trading/investment craze culture ( see this blog...). Its written by the same guys who did Infernal Affairs, they also co-directed it too apparently.  The film has some good chemistry between the actors, including the supporting actors. The always excellent Zhang Jingchu plays Lau's love interest as well as the ex-wife of his colleague, played by Alex Fong.  Michael Wong also has a large part as a financial tychoon on the other side of the financial machinations.

I enjoyed the movie, but I should warn you, its not really an action movie at all.  Its more of a suspense drama type film. it is quite dark and depressing at points, but it also has a good bit of humor mixed in to keep you from getting too down. :-P

" Don't make me throw you off this roof top like that guy in Internal Affairs!"

One small problem - I thought the ending was a bit too much, but maybe its just me.... oh and Grace Huang's part was not nearly long enough. :-D

7/10

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Phatchan
The best local movie this year so far!
15 年多 ago
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Good this movie will be release in China as well^_^, i plan to watch it\!
15 年多 ago
Chungtsang 5b chungtsang
Can't wait. Looking forward to seeing Grace's part in this too.
15 年多 ago
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chung - unfortunately her scene is pretty short. :-(
15 年多 ago
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Grace - my mood would have been much improved if they left the whole scene in! :-D
15 年多 ago
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Grace - but yes, that seems to happen a lot, my scenes in 'Alls Well Ends Well' were the same, we filmed half a day and they only used about 30 seconds worth. the parts with the other actors in my scene were actually pretty funny (we were all cracking up in the set), but ultimately it didn't fit with the final project so it got cut out. but now there's life after death thanks to director's cut DVD releases. ;-)
15 年多 ago
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Dude I LOVE that transformers thingy! Oh and is Overheard playing with English subtitles? :)
15 年多 ago
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kristina - yes, english.
15 年多 ago

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