In The Overlook, A.V. Club film critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky examines the misfits, underappreciated gems, and underseen classics of film history.
The worldwide reputation of Johnnie To, who has sat at the head of the table of Hong Kong genre directors since about the late 1990s, comes mostly from his perfectly formulated crime and gangster films. These are embellished pulp-existentialist stories of men with missions, ticking clocks, cornered killers. On the more out-there projects—like 2001’s Fulltime Killer, which was kind of like his take on the gratuitous post-modern, post-Tarantino, video-store-addled hit man movie—he’ll sometimes share directing credit with Wai Ka-Fai, his longtime screenwriter and producing partner. But even in those joint efforts, you can clearly make out the fingerprint of “the To touch.” His staging has the cleverness and precision of a heist, yet it still has a very rich range: deep-focus master shots, fuzzy extreme ...
The worldwide reputation of Johnnie To, who has sat at the head of the table of Hong Kong genre directors since about the late 1990s, comes mostly from his perfectly formulated crime and gangster films. These are embellished pulp-existentialist stories of men with missions, ticking clocks, cornered killers. On the more out-there projects—like 2001’s Fulltime Killer, which was kind of like his take on the gratuitous post-modern, post-Tarantino, video-store-addled hit man movie—he’ll sometimes share directing credit with Wai Ka-Fai, his longtime screenwriter and producing partner. But even in those joint efforts, you can clearly make out the fingerprint of “the To touch.” His staging has the cleverness and precision of a heist, yet it still has a very rich range: deep-focus master shots, fuzzy extreme ...
- 8/1/2017
- by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
- avclub.com
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