• Warning: Spoilers
    LOVING YOU is an early effort for Hong Kong director Johnnie To, an unwieldy combination of romantic melodrama and cop thriller. I'm a fan of the latter genre, but the thriller elements here never have much time to develop and the bad guy in particular lacks the kind of screen presence you'd expect from such a movie. Popular actor Lau Ching Wan plays an unlikeable cop who mistreats his wife, causing her to leave him. He's later ambushed and left for dead, so she comes back to look after him. That's all the story you're getting. There's some evidence of style in To's photography but overall this is a slow-moving and oddly uninvolving film.