Law Or Justice?: Quick Takes

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Law Or Justice?
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There's a moral and ethic dilemma hidden in the title of this Taylor Wong helmed Shaw Brother's production. See if you can spot it. A stab at the courtroom drama, centering around rapist Tien (Wilson Lam), someone the law has difficulty nailing down despite violating a model (Joey Wong) and her sister (Lau Mei-Gwan). As defense counsel he gets Wing-Man (Carol Cheng), the girlfriend of a cop (Alex Man) who offers up a opinion not matching her professional ethics...

Effective when it is exploitative (the rape of the sister has Tien throwing buckets of paint at her, taking place amongst strobe lights to boot), Taylor Wong stages a fairly competent but standard drama. Questions brought up are valid concerns but you do start to get pissed off when victims, while under distress, can't seem to say the right thing in court. But then the movie wouldn't be feature length anyway so characters acting foolish is something Wong embraces seemingly. Performances are spotty, with Joey Wong largely disappearing by the half way point but Carol Cheng proves to have a commanding presence when her character is in her element. The romantic pairing between her and Alex Man seems a little far-fetched but their relationship does come to an effective closure when Taylor Wong stages his final moments in the courtroom. Moments that unfortunately includes an over the top melodramatic speech but also a quick outburst of rather shocking bloodshed. Law Or Justice? seems to leave a mark on you therefore but one imprint doesn't save it. Paul Chun and Ti Lung also appears.

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