風林火山
Sons of the Neon Night
Yes, this is what happens when son of a rich dad did a 1 hit wonder of a movie and now spent 7 yrs on a new movie and it flops. 20% on rotten tomato... suckers.
Backdrop - drug lords having 2 sons coming back in year 1994 in a snowing Hong Kong. WHAT? yes.. why 1994, and why a snowing Hong Kong is beyond me.
Juno Mak is son of a business man so yes he had a lot of money to spend. He did a movie (classic corspse remake of the classic 1984 movie; who the director was my actual real uncle.)
So when he did a remake using the same title, released in 2013, won a few awards.
Budget of the movie was US$50 million which was huge in HK terms, hired a LOT of A list artists. Well, this is what happens when you throw money at things. Despite that, the scripe sucked, the tension was never established, CGI was crap but most importantly, NOTHING lifted off.
THe only thing that was legit was the artistic black and white of the entire movie. It's not the first time but when Sin City and maybe Sucker Punch , but it just failed.
I cant' even give it one star because I can't put my finger on anything that would be worthy to suggest to anyone. What a great flop which people had such high hopes.