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| Product Title: | Expect The Unexpected 非常突然 非常突然 非常突然 Expect The Unexpected Expect The Unexpected |
| Artist Name(s): | Lau Ching Wan (Actor) | Simon Yam (Actor) | Yoyo Mung | Raymond Wong | Hui Siu Hung | Ruby Wong 劉 青雲 (Actor) | 任達華 (Actor) | 蒙嘉慧 | 黃浩然 | 許紹雄 | 黃卓玲 刘 青云 (Actor) | 任达华 (Actor) | 蒙嘉慧 | 黄浩然 | 许绍雄 | 黄卓玲 劉青雲（ラウ・チンワン） (Actor) | 任達華 （サイモン・ヤム） (Actor) | 蒙嘉慧（ヨーヨー・モン） | 黄浩然（レイモンド・ウォン） | 許紹雄（ホイ・シウホン） | 黄卓玲（ルビー・ウォン） Lau Ching Wan (Actor) | Simon Yam (Actor) | Yoyo Mung | Raymond Wong | Hui Siu Hung | Ruby Wong |
| Language: | Cantonese, Mandarin |
| Country of Origin: | Hong Kong |
| Disc Format(s): | VCD |
| Rating: | II |
| Other Information: | 2VCDs |
| Package Weight: | 70 (g) |
| Shipment Unit: | 1 What is it? |
| YesAsia Catalog No.: | 1382 |
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Professional Review of "Expect The Unexpected"
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As financial belts have tightened in Hong Kong during a series of late-90s economic crises, the action superproductions that made the Special Administrative Region famous have fallen by the wayside, and instead film makers have turned their formidable skills to the ensemble drama. Now when you see an action movie from Hong Kong it's liable that the understated character work and the careful attention to human behavior will carry just as much heft as the bullet holes pocking their way up the front of a baddie.
Expect the Unexpected brings a touching feel for human tenderness to Milkyway's normal "no way out" fate-heavy action pictures. Influenced strongly by the delicate rhythms of Japanese TV dramas, a craze that was sweeping Hong Kong during production, Patrick Yau and Wai Ka-fai give us a watercolor study of a group of resolutely middle-class professionals who just happen to be cops working together to bring to ground two gangs of criminals who take their jobs way too seriously. A stunning opening set piece - twenty minutes of carefully calculated screw tightening - launches Yau's camera into gliding motion as it follows each of his O Department members - buttoned-down Ken (Simon Yam), loose-cannon Sam (Lau Ching-wan), by-the-book Macy (Ruby Wong), and lover-boy Jackie (Raymond Wong) - as they encounter old flames (namely Yoyo Mung, in her first screen performance), get investigated for corruption, and hunt down a squad of home invaders who are raping and murdering their way across Hong Kong, a duffel bag full of heavy artillery in tow. Zipped up in their funked out wardrobes (the 70s never had such an influence on the 90s before), these young cops can pull their leather jackets as tight as they want, but they'll never be able to protect their hearts from love's wounds or the occasional bullet hole. Apart from The Mission this is Milkyway's finest ensemble piece to date. Ruby Wong and Yoyo Mung are dead-on with their portraits of two very different women going after what they want in a man's world. Simon Yam, after years of hackwork, makes a career comeback with his portrayal of a guy who's grown too used to denying himself what he wants until his life has burned out leaving him with nothing but colleagues and a job. Lau Ching-wan again demonstrates the DeNiro syndrome: a great actor who isn't noticed for all the finely nuanced character work he's doing. Rib-cracking outbursts of violence continually interrupt this movie's delicate drama, and by the time the audience has come to know this cast of hard-working goofballs every bullet in every shootout has potentially devastating consequences. Urban life has never looked so sexy, or so dangerous, as it does in Expect the Unexpected, a movie for the broken-hearted full of missed opportunities and tinged with a lifetime's worth of regrets. by Grady Hendrix |
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Customer Review of "Expect The Unexpected"
November 14, 2003
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I wasn't actually that surprised about the ending, I mean just read the title of this movie(there is actually a meaning to the movie title), but the thing which really disturbed me the most are the raping of the girls in the flats where the villians were staying(don't get me wrong there were no rape scenes troughout the film but to know that the girls were gang rape was disturbing enough) and the baby in the washing machine was also very disturbing. But if you could handle what I've just written then go ahead and buy this film because the action scenes were pretty good. |
August 22, 2001
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There are lots of positive reviews about film, after watching this film I have to disagree with them. The weakest part of this film has to be the ending. The ending was really really awful, so expect the disappointment. |
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May 5, 2001
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This movie is interesting and gutsy in several ways. One of the few movies to look pessimistically at the handover of Hong Kong. It has inventive symbolism and avoids having the standard sappy ending. |
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