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Set on Christmas Eve, One Night In Mongkok takes place
in Hong Kong's most violent and densely populated district;
Kowloon. A frazzled police squad searches for a contract killer
known simply as Roy. Roy's latest assignment threatens to
ignite a full scale Triad turf war, as he has been hired to
assassinate a powerful drug lord who has murdered his main
rival. Tensions mount and worlds collide, as both the police
and gangsters search for Roy, who in turn appears to have
his own agenda, involving the disappearance of his sister...
After
the success of Infernal Affairs, the floodgates have
opened to more Chinese crime thrillers. One Night In Mongkok
starts promisingly, the story jumping straight in to the
action, which is conveyed through stylised editing that for
once isn't delirious with tricks (Tony Scott take note). After
that, the story slumps down on its arse and eats biscuits
for about an hour. The killer finds himself entangled (not
literally, sadly) with a hooker, and the two embark on a strained
romance and go shopping. After a day of this, the killer finds
he likes shopping better than murder. Great.
It is after the first hour that the story decides it's eaten
enough biscuits, and that maybe it should engage in some exercise,
lest it become too flabby. So the story finally gets up off
its arse and brings its friends out to play. Tension, action,
drama and character - all the things that were largely missing
before - suddenly jump out from behind where they were hiding,
grab you by the hair and slap you into wakefulness. It's just
a shame you have to struggle for nearly 60 minutes before
this happens.
On a technical note, the disc defaulted to the Dolby Digital
2.0 Stereo soundtrack, which is annoying as it should default
to the 5.1 version. Extras include deleted scenes, a recording
of the premiere, a behind the scenes documentary (loaded with
visual gimmicks to the point of silliness, so maybe Tony Scott
made it) and - wait for it - the trailer.
Jeff
Watson
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