Naturally I sat down to watch "Detective Chinatown" (aka "Tang ren jie tan an") when I was given the chance to do so here in 2019. I wasn't even familiar with these movies prior to stumbling upon them randomly. And given my fascination with Asian cinema, of course I had to watch it.
I wanted to like this movie, I really did. But it just never really caught on with me, and I must say that it was a drag to sit through this ordeal of a movie. Actually, I didn't even finish it, as I fell asleep twice throughout the course of it and simply just gave up with 40 minutes left of the movie. At that point I was well beyond my threshold of what I will endure in a movie. And "Detective Chinatown" was not delivering anything particularly entertaining for me.
The storyline here was just unappealing, and it wasn't something that I found amusing. Sure, there were a few smirks and smiles here and there, but that was about it what director and writer Sicheng Chen managed to acquire from me as I watched this movie.
I didn't really care much about neither storyline nor characters in the movie. There was just something fundamental missing from everything here to make it an interesting movie. For me, it seemed like writer and director Sicheng Chen was just running everything on auto-pilot.
I am rating it four out of ten stars, solely because of the production value and the fact that they had some fair enough actors and actresses in the movie. However, this is not a movie that I will be returning to finish, it just simply wasn't within my liking. And now I have heavy doubts about sitting down to watch the sequels.
I wanted to like this movie, I really did. But it just never really caught on with me, and I must say that it was a drag to sit through this ordeal of a movie. Actually, I didn't even finish it, as I fell asleep twice throughout the course of it and simply just gave up with 40 minutes left of the movie. At that point I was well beyond my threshold of what I will endure in a movie. And "Detective Chinatown" was not delivering anything particularly entertaining for me.
The storyline here was just unappealing, and it wasn't something that I found amusing. Sure, there were a few smirks and smiles here and there, but that was about it what director and writer Sicheng Chen managed to acquire from me as I watched this movie.
I didn't really care much about neither storyline nor characters in the movie. There was just something fundamental missing from everything here to make it an interesting movie. For me, it seemed like writer and director Sicheng Chen was just running everything on auto-pilot.
I am rating it four out of ten stars, solely because of the production value and the fact that they had some fair enough actors and actresses in the movie. However, this is not a movie that I will be returning to finish, it just simply wasn't within my liking. And now I have heavy doubts about sitting down to watch the sequels.