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- MOVIE page: Man Tam (2013)
- Rate: 6.4/10 total 189 votes
- Genre: Crime | Drama
- Runtime: 130 min
- Filming Location: Hong Kong, China
- Budget: $11,000,000 (estimated)
- Director: Johnnie To
- Stars: Andy Lau, Sammi Cheng, Yuanyuan Gao | See full cast and crew
- Original Music By: Marc Baril (co-composer)
- Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
- (in alphabetical order)
- Ryker Chan
- Ka-Fai Wai screenplay
- Nai-Hoi Yau
- Xi Yu
Plot: A cop is forced into early retirement due to retinal damage. But after witnessing a bank robbery along with a female inspector - who believes he has acute senses - they team up in hope to solve the case. | »
Story: A cop is forced into early retirement due to retinal damage. But after witnessing a bank robbery along with a female inspector - who believes he has acute senses - they team up in hope to solve the case.
Produced By:
- Peter Lam known as executive producer
- Dai Song known as executive producer
- Johnnie To known as producer
- Ka-Fai Wai known as producer
- Albert Yeung known as executive producer
- Andy Lau known as Chong Si-teun / Johnston
- Sammi Cheng known as Ho Ka Tung
- Yuanyuan Gao known as Tingting
- Tao Guo known as Szeto Fat-bo
- Philip Keung
- Suet Lam
- Hoi-Pang Lo
- Man-Wai Wong (as Bonnie Wong)
- Ying-Ying Yiu
- Yi Zi
Production Companies:
- Emperor Motion Pictures
- Media Asia Films
- Milky Way Image Company
- Sil-Metropole Organisation
Man Tam (2013) Review by junkielee from Rome
Johnnie To's latest film marks a long-anticipated reunion of Andy Lauand Sammi Cheng, the rom-com triad has chalked up magical box-officedraw and successes in the Aughts (most victorious ones are LOVE ON ADIET 2001, 7/10 and NEEDING YOU… 2000, 8/10), and after a 9-year-hiatus (since YESTERDAY ONCE MORE 2004, 6/10), this "irontriangle" has notched up an inspiring comeback which ingeniously imbuesa lighthearted rom-com into an out-of-left-field detective thrillerwith an adequate whodunit revelation in the end.
For international territory, Johnnie To is mostly appreciated by hisgrim and stylized portrayal of Hong Kong's crime and gangsterunderbellies, a patriarch ruling world of ambitious figures seeking formoney, women and power, but his collaboration with Lau and Cheng is aconsistent offshoot from To and his own MILKY WAY IMAGE COMPANY'sprolific filmography, not to mention is his most popular and profitableones. So the innovation banks on how To would mingle his trademarkdarker traits into the audience-friendly couple (Lau and Cheng,indicates their 7th on-screen alliance as lovers), which could allureboth To's hardcore fans and a wider general appeal from a maturerdemography. Judging by the finished film, the tentative stab is a smartmove, BLIND DETECTIVE is on its way of becoming To's most money-earningfilm in mainland China market (previously the record was just freshlyheld by To's earlier drug-cartel undercover drama DRUG WAR 2012).
A posh Andy Lau, a former police officer who has been blind in lieu ofhis negligence of his own health in order to track suspects, teamedwith a wealthy policewoman (Cheng), who is obsessed with thedisappearance of her friend 20 years ago, together they manage to cracka few unsolved cases while put their own lives in danger. For Lau'smethod of deducing, if you are familiar with the new series HANNIBAL,imaging oneself at the murder scene and incarnating one's identity asthe culprit to visualize what had happened is not new, but themind-cum-body default (Lau is the mastermind while Cheng is theright-hand woman does all the action labor) works wonder here, withCheng's ongoing crush on Lau, the pair sparks off a flavorfulrib-tickling screwball casualness allies with the horrid cases they areworking on, a superb visual stunt comes from the mortuary slaughter,gallows humor galore.
Sammi Cheng is burdened with a great quantity of physical endeavor outof her slim frame, furthermore she is exhorted to deliver hercareer-best stretches as the film demands, i.e. the myriad avatars ofheartbroken female victims, and her comical timing with Lau is anotherlinchpin to the success. Lau, an epicure more than a sleuth, is amiableand emits his deadly debonair all over the devil-may-care script. Amongsupporting roles, mainland players Tao Guo and Yuanyuan Gao aresidelined only as comic relief, while a cocktail of veteran Hong Kongthespians is shortchanged by the brevity of their presence.
Strictly speaking, the process of disclosing the perpetrators is not ascogent as it seems, the hyperbole of Lau's knack (against hisblindness) is sometimes pulling audiences out of the picture a bit, butBLIND DETECTIVE is a paradigm of To and his team's great attempt toconcoct a genre-blender which is both entertaining and ruminative, itis an earnest piece of work, a precious gem considering the plight ofChina's mainstream cinema (potboilers are brimful while the market isrising at an exponential rate), Johnnie To, is the last straw of theonce-glorious Hong Kong film industry and he is the trailblazer refusesto compromise or pander for the unique policy-oriented requirements,calling for emulators and successors.
Man Tam (2013) Review by moviexclusive from Singapore
'Blind Detective's' pedigree reads like a match made in cinematicheaven - on one hand, it boasts the reunion of Hong Kong's goldenscreen couple, Andy Lau and Sammi Cheng, after almost a decade; on theother, its creative team made up of Johnnie To and Wai Kar Fai isarguably one of the most successful partnerships in the Hong Kong filmindustry. Yet it is precisely because of the latter reason that oneshould know better than to expect a conventional movie - after all,neither To nor Wai have ever liked to be associated with justperfunctory.
And 'Blind Detective' bears that similarly uncharacteristic trait,defying easy genre characterisation by treading right on the middleline between a slapstick rom-com and a crime thriller. It is a veryfine balance no doubt, one that proves too tricky from time to timeeven for a director of auteur status like To, so criticism that themovie is tonally all over the place is somewhat not unfounded. Thatdoesn't mean however that it isn't entertaining; on the contrary, itpulses with its own eccentric beat, and the more you get used to itsoffbeat tone, the faster you'll begin to appreciate its own uniquecharm.
To introduces us and his odd couple to each other with an acid attackcase that both Lau's retinally-damaged former top cop Johnston andCheng's junior crime squad cop Ho are on the trail of. Turns out thatsince losing his sight four years earlier, Johnston has been using hisother senses and formidable deductive powers to solve crimes solely forthe purpose of earning the associated bounties. Having madeacquaintance, Ho engages Johnston to do a little sleuthing for her -more specifically, to assist her in finding a childhood friend with atragic past called Minnie who disappeared many years ago. Under theguise of working more closely with her, Johnston moves into Ho'sapartment - though an earlier scene which demonstrates his solitudeliving alone suggests that he wants company too.
While Minnie's case frames the nature of their interaction, almost halfthe movie is in fact spent on other cold cases that Johnston is stillchasing the bounty for - and like Ho, we too are taken on a couple ofthese bizarre diversions. One particularly outlandish case has Johnstonattempting to piece together a murder scene in a morgue with somegenerous help from Ho, the re-enactments played for broader-than-broadlaughs with a hammer, a motorbike helmet and a TV set thrown in.Johnston's technique is to attentively reconstruct the crime scene,which given his disability, makes Ho a useful companion to participatein these elaborate and occasionally over-the-top sequences.
At least for the middle section, Wai's script tends to meander, notleast for the fact that it tries to add in some unnecessary subplotsincluding Johnston's crush on a tango dancer (Gao Yuanyuan) and hisrivalry with Szeto. Only towards the last third does Johnston get downto business on Minnie's case, the trail of clues leading them to a lovetriangle in Zhuhai involving a pregnant woman (Eileen Yeow) and ateppanyaki chef (Ziyi) as well as to a psychotic serial killerresponsible for the deaths of several missing young women over the pastfew years.
Even then, those familiar with To's rigour in shooting well-detailedprocedurals like this year's 'Drug War' may not be used to what appearsto be a lack of storytelling discipline here. To plays it fast andloose, seemingly reluctant to exert tighter directorial rein over Wai'sslackly constructed plotting; yet seen through a less criticalperspective, To in fact gives as much, if not more, weight to therelationship between Johnston and Ho as to the central mystery, each ofthe distractions in fact deepening their quirky but no doubt romanticattraction.
Just as in most Wai films, there is a moral at the end when the truthabout Minnie's disappearance is revealed, a cautionary lesson if youwill about the consequences of being blinded by one's own stubbornness.Viewed through this lens, Johnston and Ho's earlier encounters gainsome meaningful significance - ultimately, both Johnston and Ho havealso been guilty of refusing to let go of their respective baggage fromthe past, and it is with each other that they learn to recognise theimportance of moving on. Yet it is a point that may be lost on manyaudiences, who are likely to be frustrated by the alternating mix ofmadcap laughs and overdone acting.
Yes, while there is little doubt of the palpable chemistry between AndyLau and Sammi Cheng, both are guilty of crossing the line intohistrionics at times. Lau is arguably best during his character'squieter and more introspective moments, in particular when hevisualises himself communicating with victim and suspect alike indreamlike fashion; unfortunately, his real-life interactions tend toconsist of him flailing and shouting exaggeratedly. Cheng is thankfullymore subdued most of the time, and amply demonstrates her gift forphysical comedy especially during the crime scene re-enactments.
It's hard to imagine any other screen couple in the roles of Johnstonand Ho, which is another way of saying that the movie probably wouldnot work with someone else in Andy and Sammi's shoes. And by virtue ofthat, this genre mash-up is unequivocally their show, which in thehands of Johnnie To and Wai Kar-Fai, is quite a different creature fromthe usual Hong Kong comedies or for that matter detective thrillers.The combination of both makes for a deliberately uncharacteristic tonethat is both weird and wacky, but there is still an undeniablyidiosyncratic charm about it that deserves an appreciative audience.
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