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Memento
Hong Kong 2002
directed by Roger Lau
starring Kathy Chow, Tse Kwan Ho, Wong He, Amanda Lee, Karen Tong, Natalie Ng, Gabriel Harrison, Leo Lo
review by Mike Haberfelner
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When movie-loving cop Fun (Kathy Chow) finds a woman killed just like in
Psycho's shower scene, she soon deducts the killer must be a
film-lover too, and thus must have watched the victim from an adjoining
apartment. She is somewhat right, as this apartment contains another
victim of the killer, this time killed in style of the movie Seven.
Fun realizes the case might be too big for her alone & consults
crime psychologist doctor Tse (Tse Kwan Ho), an arrogant blind man who
is initially more interested in playing mind games with her than the
case, but he helps her find the 3rd victim, killed in a way derived from
Silence of the Lambs. The 2 come to the conclusion that the
killings have to be linked to the movie world, & soon they find out
that all 3 victims worked on some films for Tommy's film productions,
films that were all co-starring the now famous actress Lau-Ching, were
directed by Tommy, scripted by Don Don, & Sister Wah was responsible
for casting - v& they were all (like the killings) rip-offs of
American movies. As Fun & Tse begin opening up to one another &
become closer, even friends, on an emotional level, they are also
closing in on the killer, until Lau-Ching is stabbed in a discotheque,
& all the evidence points to fanboy Chor, who is hunted down &
shot in self defense by Fun's superior Chow (Wong He) before any
conclusive proof is actually digged up against him. Tse actually has a
very different theory of his own, since all the film people (including
the victims) are somehow mixed up with the death of actress Winnie
several years ago, & the murderer might be Winnie's cop boyfriend at
the time - Chow. Tse confronts Chow with this newfound evidence, &
Chow quickly decides to kill Tse, only to be shot himself in the nick of
time by Fun. But ... wouldn't the evidence also point to Fun ?
Entertaining but not all that original serialkiller-movie, its major
fault being its actual premise: when you are doing a movie about a
killer copying American movies you just can't help ... well, copying
American movies, which is not necessarily the best idea in the first
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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