Prior to the movie viewing, I didn't read its plot. I only took a glimpse of its photos gallery and I thought this could be something good. The photos were a good giveaway that Nick Cheung （张家辉） was going to be the bad guy in the film and I hadn't seen him as the antagonist for so long since Secret of The Heart (天地豪情), so I was pretty anticipated for his role in it. The movie was almost 2 hours long but not a scene in it that bored me.
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Through out the flick, especially at the start of the movie, you might mistakenly assume he is the bad guy, and frankly, I thought the film totally fooled me at the first place, especially at the first scene where he was trying to beat the hell out of those guys, or slayed them in cold blood. I thought, 'wow, he is going to be the cruel killer and this is going to be another good horror'. And I thought he must be the perverted psycho killer. In spite of that, he was total the opposite. All this time, he planted all the evidence directly so it pointed to him just for the intention to protect his daughter's crime which of course was an accident.
The film was actually full of suspense and quite of twists and turns with all the investigations by Officer Lam (任达华飾). However, there was a plot hole where all the cops and investigators proved to be so lame that they only found out Wang's (Nick Cheung) residence in the middle of the movie. What take them so long to locate his residence? I thought the cops knew better than me when they brought him into his first interrogation.
Nick Cheung's and Yam's (任达华) ages were evident in the movie. It's a letdown because they are talented actors and now it's their times to take on the father's role in movies. All in all, this movie was not a disappointment, although Nick Cheung wasn't the bad guy that I expected earlier. The story was wholly tragic and sheer accident. Nobody killed everyone.
It actually quite moving at the end though.