[Review + Festival] Eye in the Sky 跟蹤

charmed

Have seen the movie today, and it's not bad.

There are parts that are incredibly slow and drag on, but on the whole, it wasn't time wasted.

Simon Yam and Tony Leung were good in their parts, as was Lam Suet - although that's mostly expected. Kate Tsui; she gets a 3/5 from me. Passable, but not fantastic, especially for a lead. And her character was just irritatingly unprofessional. Storyline-wise, it did move along well, and ending has a nice kind of irony to it. And I do like the way it was presented - at the end of the scenes, they'd fade out into a kind of 'surveillance' shot. Quite effective I thought. Although the whole filming from above made me dizzy at the beginning.

And Maggie. Her hair suits her so much, and she is so fitting as a Madam. Screentime isn't big, but she does make a presence. The swearing is hilarious, but it is quite obvious that she is not used to it - she puts the swear words in a little forced. But only a little. And we can't fault her for that! I love the scene where they thought they had found the guy and it turned out that they didnt. She throws her hands up and says "Yiu!". And then her superior says "You have such a foul mouth, any man will be put off you". She looks at him and says "Yiu!" again - pauses, thinks, and says "Sorry sir".

The movie gets about a 3.5/5 I think.

ETA: I forgot to mention her nails. I read the interview with the director and he said that she looks very feminine but she is very rude. I think there was quite an emphasis put on that - the very first thing you see is her hands, beautifully painted dark maroon, extremely femme.

[此贴子已经被作者于2007-6-21 18:36:30编辑过]

shaw_mag

Ha...ha..., finally you made it, Charmed.

Wow! dark maroon nails... Can't imagine this femme madam talks trash.

charmed

Because they were dark maroon, it was very very 'lady'. Pink would have been less severe, but they made it dark maroon and that's quite a demure colour.

The humour of Maggie's character was a little wasted to the audience though. The humour was alot of the movie was actually wasted. Because it was the Sydney Film Festival, much of the audience were non-Asian - the subtitles were a literal translation, there were none of the colloquial frills. When they say to follow the person, in Cantonese they would say "bite onto him" but the subtitles simply said "Follow him". It was quite unfortunate

None of the trash talk was at all subtitled.