Mad Detective

Johnnie To and Wai Ka Fai never failed me in the past and neither did they do so with their latest film, Mad Detective. If there are films that pit the same actors most of the time that doesn't fail to entertain, then it has got to be made by them.

The latest instalment by Milkyway Productions heralded a new masterpiece that delves into the subject of just being human. Using an all too familiar cops and robbers background for the story doesn't matter here but in fact it actually propels the film to being entertaining in addition to the karmic message to the audience that being human or our conscience is actually a multitude of personalities in us. Some of us have a more pronounce multiples while others have them subtle.

The outline of the film as ripped from wikipedia:

'Inspector Bun (Lau Ching-Wan) is a brilliant detective who is forced into retirement after presenting his retiring boss with a severed ear. Bun's gift is that he can supposedly see a person's "inner personalities," or hidden ghosts.

Years later, Inspector Ho Ka-On (Andy On) visits Bun in an attempt to break the case of Wong Kwok-chu (Lee Kwok Lun), a colleague who went missing when he and his partner, Ko Chi-Wai (Lam Ka-Tung) were in pursuit of a suspect. Wong has been AWOL for 18 months, and his gun has been used in a series of armed robberies.

Bun comes out of retirement and discovers that rather than being one man, Chi-Wai is a seven spirit collective (with each perhaps representing an aspect of the Seven Deadly Sins). Ho doesn't know whether to buy into Bun's sixth sense or simply watch in awe and hope that there's more than madness to Bun's method'

Although the story sounds interesting but what really hooked me up was Johnnie and Ka Fai's directing, cinematography and casting. The way how they turned their abstract visualisation of the script into real actions is simply classic, without any CGI and not to mention their trademark gunshots.

As much as the film which I think is a hell of a great piece there was a flaw that I spotted throughout the show until the very end which debunked that reservation. The apparent 'flaw' wasn't a flaw, as it just wasn't supposed to be revealed until the very end, by just one line. Try spotting it.

Without further a do, go watch it.