Herman Yau potboiler that, like any solid Hong Kong film, is not afraid to mix melodrama and comedy into its thrills. Andy Lau plays a bomb disposal expert who has to fight terrorist after they have taken over the Harbor Tunnel. Yau is a director who thrives with this kind of straightforward setup because while he is not the most emotional of directors, his camerawork is attentive to the logical cause-and-effect of plot and action. What you get with Yau is a basic belief that a scene has to be properly set up so that you know who is involved and what are they going to do, and then they go about doing it. While one would argue that “so does every other movie”, the truth is most movies are utterly incompetent at this and expects the audience to just piece it together from their coverage. Yau doesn’t do coverage. What Yau does exercise is journalistic integrity, and does so to tell a good yarn no matter what genre he is working in.
Herman Yau potboiler that, like any solid Hong Kong film, is not afraid to mix melodrama and comedy into its thrills. Andy Lau plays a bomb disposal expert who has to fight terrorist after they have taken over the Harbor Tunnel. Yau is a director who thrives with this kind of straightforward setup because while he is not the most emotional of directors, his camerawork is attentive to the logical cause-and-effect of plot and action. What you get with Yau is a basic belief that a scene has to be properly set up so that you know who is involved and what are they going to do, and then they go about doing it. While one would argue that “so does every other movie”, the truth is most movies are utterly incompetent at this and expects the audience to just piece it together from their coverage. Yau doesn’t do coverage. What Yau does exercise is journalistic integrity, and does so to tell a good yarn no matter what genre he is working in.
