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The Bullet Vanishes (2012)


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First trailer is out. Loving the style, it sticks very close to Kirk Wong's Gunmen.

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I thought this to be a highly stylized, impressively produced film with an intricately woven who-dun-it plot... that somehow takes a few twists too many. The few action scenes were not all that remarkable though. There was an interestingly staged shoot-out in the factory, a mildly exciting chase scene and a heavily CGI-assisted ammo explosion scene filmed in slo-mo that didn’t look all that convincing. None of those were very long.

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Checked this one out on Netflix today. It was pretty good. The plot was interesting, although the end gets a little too complicated for its own good. The story follows a super-clever, if humanist, prison officer, Song Donglu (Lau Ching-Wan), who is transferred to a city to help clean up the corrupt police department (at least indirectly). He's put on a case of a man who was murdered at a bullet factory, but in which the bullet itself is nowhere to be found. Teaming up with him is an equally-astute policeman, Zhong Gui (Nicolas Tse), who is also an expert marksman. A complicated mystery develops as more people die in equally-mysterious ways, which are attributed by the put-upon employees of the factory to a curse, started by the unjust death of a female employee accused of stealing bullets.

There are a few action sequences, including a gunfight in an abandoned building. The film mainly sticks out for its acting, characterizations, high production values and period settings, and its fascinating storyline (the caveats about the end notwithstanding). But it's more than worth a single viewing.

 

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