| Ken (Charlie Yeung) returns to Hong Kong from Los Angeles to clear up among other things insurance issues surrounding her brother David's death and learn more of him. Asked to seek up David's friend Joe (Max Mok), Ken shacks up in the apartment complex that has a central shared room filled with many walks of life. Foreigners, drugs, a single mother, aspiring singer, not only is the living room culturally diverse but these particular Hong Kong streets are as well. Including the look at the gay community which Joe is said to be very much part of. Yet, him and Ken fall in love...
A cheesy setup for sure but Andy Chin (Call Girl 92 and yet being a director favouring shooting in synch sound) doesn't bring How Deep Is Your Love into offensive territory. Since he doesn't push for plot matters until very late either, the agenda is indeed to offer up something culturally diverse and meeting our different characters with aspirations (or not), the feel is certainly interesting. Chemistry between leads Yeung and Mok remains solid as well but when unearthing his final plot strands late, Andy Chin simply doesn't know what to do with a movie that has been different up to this point. So he opts for something easy and gets no stirring emotions going in the final moments. Also with Vincent Wan, Kenneth Chan, Joe Junior, Kingdom Yuen and Wu Chien-Lien. |
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