The latest instalment in the most inept crime thriller series in Hong Kong cinema in the past 10 years, Crypto Storm, with its young, good-looking cast, is watchable if you forget how farcical its story is.
Director Kelvin Shum’s debut film, Deliverance, while atmospheric and visually striking, is undone by its highly unrealistic screenplay – we might give this one a miss.
2.5/5 stars Set around the titular tourist attraction in Hong Kong’s Mong Kok neighbourhood, Ladies Market is a modest drama about several grass roots characters looking for that elusive sense of connection their respective family has failed to provide. The film plays more like an urban fable narrated from a child’s perspective than the gritty thriller that its subject matter,.