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End
of the Road |
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Year: |
1993 |
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Director: |
Chiu
Yen-Ping |
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Cast: |
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai,
Ng Man-Tat, Rosamund
Kwan Chi-Lam, Jimmy
Lin, Ray Lui Leung-Wai,
O Chun-Hung,
Yip Chuen-Chun |
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The
Skinny: |
Shoddy war movie that attempts drama - though unsucessfully.
With a cast like this, you'd expect something better. |
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Review
by Kozo: |
Chiu Yen-Ping (the poor man's
Wong Jing) directed this dour war movie which attempts to
be a weighty drama - and instead becomes only a passing distraction.
Set during the Burmese-Communist War, the film details the
trials of various Chinese stuck in war-torn Thailand. Ng Man-Tat
and Jimmy Lin are friends/comrades-in-arms, and Tony Leung
Chiu-Wai is a scummy soldier who goes turncoat and goes to
work for Ray Lui and his drug cartels. Rosamund Kwan appears
as Ng Man Tat's woman (lucky guy!), but her past is both hidden
and potentially dangerous. What Chiu was trying to do with
this film is obvious, but his direction is so ham-fisted and
prosaic that viewing the film is like being bludgeoned with
a ball-peen hammer. Eventually, he tries to make a point,
and does: life sucks. Though that's a valuable lesson for
all the impressionable tykes out there, this film is hardly
the medium in which to share it. Ultimately, End of the
Road isn't horrendously awful, but it's still a long way
from being good. (Kozo 1996) |
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Availability: |
DVD
(Hong Kong)
Region 0 NTSC
Mei Ah Laser
Widescreen
Cantonese and Mandarin Language Tracks
English and Chinese Subtitles |
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