Now You See Love...Now You Don't: Quick Takes

Alex Law's second and last movie to date (the other being Painted Faces) but as always is accompanied by Mabel Cheung who co-wrote Now You See Love...Now You Don't. Quite overshadowed by another Chow Yun-Fat vehicle of 1992 (a little movie called Hard Boiled), Law's rom-com is efficient, if not overly accomplished. It sure as hell gets off to a noisy and annoying start, yet logical start character-wise, but when all turns mellow, the charisma of and between stars Chow Yun-Fat and Do Do Cheng gets us to the moderately charming level easily. Even though broad comedy is a staple here, Law's approach to the theme of adapting to new ways and worlds is handled with a welcome mature touch. Also with Carina Lau, Anthony Wong, Teresa Mo and in a wonderful cameo playing an English teacher, Richard Ng. Ok, I'll admit it...anything Richard does makes me laugh. One can stare at that noggin all day and still be amused. It's kind of criminal...