| The technical ambition on behalf of D&B and director Stephen Shin is admirable but closing in on the disaster that was Black Cat (and what ultimately sank the company), A Bite Of Love shooting in synch sound, in the UK and mixed in Dolby signals sad things, to come. It would be slightly different if the final film had transcended its genre much more of course. Hong Kong cinema plank George Lam plays Duke Lee, a rather kind hearted vampire that lives his life at night, with certain folks thinking he's a magician, including Anna (Rosamund Kwan) that he falls in love with. On the horizon is her brother (Norman Tsui), a heroin dealer sick to the degree that he needs constant blood transfusions...
Ticking of the lightheartedness (represented by little Jeng Paak-Lam who I'm not sure has a reason to be in this film and Hui Siu-Hung as Duke's servant), the supposed felt and tragic romance combined with tension, technical merits are fair and with a more pronounced horror mode dominating the second half, A Bite Of Love flows better. Special it ain't though, even though Norman Tsui is memorable in a bad guy role he can literally sink his teeth into. |
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