A Madman Is Loose (and He’s the Good Guy)
di Manohla Dargis The New York Times
If the insanely inventive and entertaining “Mad Detective” weren’t so weird — and in Cantonese — hordes of action geeks would be lining the block to see it. Jointly directed by that one-man Hong Kong film factory Johnnie To and his periodic collaborator Wai Ka Fai (who wrote the kinky screenplay with Au Kin Yee), it turns on the kind of gimmick — a detective who’s daft, clairvoyant or both — that could have been cooked up by Quinn Martin, the television genius who, with hit 1970s shows like “Cannon,” stoked the vogue for the kind of off-the-beat, quirk-ridden private eyes that are still clogging network TV and basic cable. [...]
di Manohla Dargis, articolo completo (3768 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 18 Luglio 2008
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