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'Limbo' Review: A Stylish but Sordid Hong Kong Cop Thriller That Doesn't Know When to Quit


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Limbo Review: A Stylish but Sordid Hong Kong Cop Thriller That Doesn t Know When to Quit
Limbo Review: A Stylish but Sordid Hong Kong Cop Thriller That Doesn t Know When to Quit
An ultimately dubious exercise in genre-mandated misogyny is given a glossy finish with inspired action and slick, b/w photography.
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Running time: Running time: 118 MIN.
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Oh great, another movie about dead girls and the grizzled cop/greenhorn cop duo tracking their killer. At least “Limbo,” from Soi Cheang (the “Monkey King” franchise) looks slick often literally, with photogenic rain showers making its trashed Hong Kong slum locations as reflective as silver. The monochrome gloss smoothes over the joints between chunks of narrative and stock characters that seem lifted wholesale from other cop thrillers, though the genre’s fondness for torturing women to ....

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