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Rating: 4 out of 5 Original Title: Moon To Release Date: 2007 Director: Tung-Shing Yee Netflix Link IMDb Link |
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I watched this one because it stars Daniel Wu, Andy Lau and Louis Koo. What more could you as for? Well, how about a plot I haven’t seen a million times before? To be fair, it does throw in some fairly unique scenes involving Daniel Wu trying to save a junkie and how drugs are really bad for you. Wait, nope, I’ve seen that before. Actually, I’ve seen that before in another Daniel Wu film even. Hmm, OK then. Protégé is also overly long at nearly two hours. A lot of the scenes don’t really go anywhere. Do we really need to go traipsing through poppy fields throwing candy to children while riding an elephant? Oh, I guess we do.
Anyway, Andy Lau is brilliant, as usual, and Daniel Wu, while he’s an excellent actor, furthers the notion that he doesn’t actually have any teeth since he never once smiles. I barely recognized Louis Koo at all. Protégé is not highly recommended, but it’s worth a watch I suppose. I’ve rounded up to 4 stars since it was better than mediocre. It’s slightly better than meh, but not good enough to be good.
