Shortly to arrive on UK cinema screens and later DVD, Eureka Video present the jaw dropping Hong Kong cop thriller Mad Detective, a film that, if justice is served, will cross over into mainstream success alongside classics like Battle Royale and Old Boy.

Mad Detective, from Election and Exiled director Johhny To, follows the trials of a cop plagued by either psychic powers or mental illness, depending on which way you approach the movie. Lau Ching Wan is Inspector Bun, a homicide detective who has a unique way of solving his cases; by recreating the circumstances of a crime, he can visualize the perpetrators.

During the opening scenes this is portrayed brilliantly, in two incredible sequences where first we are introduced to the highly strung flatfoot as he stabs at a pig carcass in his office in order to feel the events that led to a murder. Next he ropes in a rookie cop, who is instructed to zip him up in a suitcase a throw him down a flight of stairs

...then another...

...then another.

When the bruised and battered lawman emerges from his temporary prison, the name of a cold killer is on his lips.

All this before the title card!

Bun may be a psychic genius when it comes to getting his man, as the headlines of numerous newspapers attest, but his interpersonal skills leave a lot to be desired and he is struck from the force because of his erratic behaviour and violent outbursts.

A broken man, he retreats into himself with only his wife for comfort. The trouble is, his wife left him a while back and he's making do with a mental construct as he descends further into murky insanity.

Bun claims to be able to see peoples inner personalities, a phenomena made possible on film by a constantly changing viewpoint that flits back and forth between the real world and Bun's cracked perspective. Is he telling the truth? Can he see visions and gauge peoples true motives through psychic force alone? The movie is always careful to leave a shred of doubt, despite the appearance of Bun's wife in the latter half of the movie and references to psychiatric treatment and medication.

With Bun teetering on the edge of a depressive abyss, the rookie who was co-opted to fling him down the stairs re-enters his life. It seems the young cop (who Bun sees as a scared child) has risen in the ranks and now heads up an investigation into a cop killing. Was it perpetrated by a criminal or the dead man's corrupt partner? Maybe the unstable Bun can tap into the secrets of this harsh and violent case...

Mad Detective is a near perfect film, marrying the violence of Hong Kong action films and the balletic gun play of pre-Hollywood John Woo with intense drama and a sensitive but gripping study of a deranged man spiraling into mental turmoil. There are amazing scenes in which the film shows the suspect's seven differing personalities as they crowd around the character. His cold, hard intelligence is represented by a callous vixen, his psychotic violence a mean faced street punk and his true persona as a fat, glutinous, badly attired middle aged man. Is this really a true representation of the man's inner life or just another manifestation of Bun's inherent mental confusion? That the film offers no concrete evidence only piles on the intrigue.

Mad Detective is one of the best movies I've seen in a long time. Violent, brooding and downbeat, it offers the viewer a well constructed insight into the realms of madness.

review � by Sam Jones from DVD is Go

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