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Ransom
Express |
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Year: |
1998 |
Alice Chan talks to Anthony Wong |
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Director: |
Francis
Nam Chi-Wai |
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Producer: |
Tony Leung
Hung-Wah |
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Cast: |
Anthony
Wong Chau-Sang, Alice
Chan Wai, Eric Wan Tin-Chiu,
Lam Chi-Ho |
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The
Skinny: |
Useless
and dead-tired Hong Kong remake of Run Lola Run. |
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Review
by Kozo: |
Completely obvious rip-off of the German arthouse sensation
Run Lola Run. Alice Chan (who looks like Anita Mui)
gets the Franka Potente role as Ruby, a woman who must run
all over the place to scrounge up some dough. The reason:
her boyfriend (played here by Eric Wan) owes money to a bigtime
gangster, but he loses the money enroute. Since his life is
probably on the line, Ruby must make a mad dash to amass the
correct amount of money - with ninety minutes as her time
limit.
The big hook of director
Tom Tykwer's original Run Lola Run was its use
of three thirty-minute scenarios to illustrate possible
outcomes for Lola and her boyfriend. That, and Franka
Potente's energetic performance, made the film an exhilirating
winner. Ransom Express expands the time limit
to ninety minutes, which - despite being not that much
time - seems to bloat the experience. It would be bad
form to say that Alice Chan runs slower than Franka
Potente did, but she sure seems to! As such, the winning
energy of the original is lost, and the uncompelling
characters and limp acting don't help things either.
Anthony Wong makes an appearance in probably his one-hundredth
film role of the year. (Kozo 2000) |
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Availability: |
DVD
(Hong Kong)
Region 0 NTSC
Winson Entertainment
Widescreen
Cantonese and Mandarin Language Tracks
Removable English and Chinese Subtitles |
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image courtesy
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