Confession of Pain

L'intrigue est pas mal, les acteurs pas mauvais, mais la mise en scène, aie aie aie ! Gros effets de ralentis, musique lancinante etc, c'est plus possible ça !

slow moving,boring,actionless and totally uninteresting....watch at your own risk.

Predictable, all the twists are not worth waiting for. Well made, but feeling a bit pretentious.

slow moving,boring,actionless and totally uninteresting....watch at your own risk.

A bereaved private investigator is called in to help find out who murdered the father in law of his best friend, the police chief, but soon suspects foul play closer to home. With Andrew Lau & Alan Mak (Infernal Affairs) directing and a cast that includes Tony Leung, Takashi Kaneshiro and Shu Qi, this ought to be a classy thriller. Yet despite these credentials it's a sombre, ponderous affair that ultimately disappoints.

I know where the story heading, still I enjoyed it. Love both the actors.

Performances were well performed by Leung, Kaneshiro and Jinglei. Qi's character maybe cute but in a way embarrassing to watch in which I believe her character didn't even need to exist in the film. The movie is a bit of a drag but it was the 3 actors who made it into a good film with a simple story.

this had a lot of potential, but the plot was just not really executed well; I loved the characters, I just wished the writer could have done more with them...the revelation of the culprit at the beginning of the investigation took ALL the fun out of it, and even THEN they could have made the movie more amazing, but it just went along the throw-tragedies-and-broodage-at-the-screen route and ended subpar...I loved the theme song though XD;

Mah, così così. La prima ora secondo me tiene anche botta ed a tratti è pure abbastanza tosto, ma si vede arrivare il finale da qualche chilometro di distanza ed il colpo di scena che sarebbe naturale attendersi in realtà non c'è. Alcune scelte bizzarre nella gestione del melodramma e dei personaggi non aiutano.

Very disapointing. Too long, too ambitious for its own good, disapointing performance from most of the cast (Shu Qi will be playing this kind of character until she's 60??). At least, there are some very nice shots of HK.