Breaking News
July 2nd, 2007
Cops, killers, bandits and the media clash in a Hong Kong apartment complex full of hostages, hand-grenades and Internet hookups. Johnny To’s (Triad Election, PTU) 2004 thriller begins as a straightforward police adventure but complicates our shifting sympathies between the hard-nosed inspector (Nick Cheung), the pretty commissioner (Kelly Chen), and the savvy gangster (Richie Ren) with a taste for explosives. Satisfying.
Daai si gin. Johnny To, 2004. ***
Top 10
September 27th, 2006
Alan Moore is the only comic book writer dealing with superheroes I can still get interested in. Top Ten is his amusing and inventive “science-hero” police force, which keeps order in a city where everybody wears tights. It’s not Watchmen, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, or Promethea, but I admire the density of ideas. You’ll have the sergeant, who’s a dog in a cyborg exoskeleton, argue with Large Marge the giant bordello madam while the size-shifting coroner takes care of the drunken over-the-hill Godzilla trying to bust out his gang-banging junior, etc etc. Hill Street Blues with superheroes, they call it. Wildstorm, 2001. ***
[tags]alan moore, comics, superheroes, police, 3 stars[/tags]
