| Overview: | COMEUPPANCE's story revolves around a series of fatal poisonings--in varied settings (including a bar, restaurant and sauna) and from a variety of toxins (most of which is swallowed but one of which is air-borne). The targets are triad kingpins and their minions by a single individual whose identity the police and gangsters, not to mention journalists and the public, seek to know but have difficulty determining.
Patrick Tam convincingly portrays the nondescript appearing man named Sung Ping who takes it upon himself to rid Hong Kong of some not very nice figures. Jordan Chan does give an admirably restrained performance in COMEUPPANCE as Hak: The journalist who takes on the job of writing a fictional serial for his newspaper, based on the crime.
Right from the start though, viewers of this clever film know who is "Heaven's Assassin" (the Chinese title). It thus should be clear that this is not a suspenseful movie. Nonetheless, it is an imaginative movie which requires its viewers to pay attention to many little details in order for them to really understand and appreciate what is going on as well as how matters, lives and deaths do intersect and connect.
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