Okay am going to try this. Have not been watching movies for a year!
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/entertainment/that-demon-within-dark/1079216.html
SINGAPORE: Hong Kong director Dante Lam’s latest crime thriller "That Demon Within" revolves around troubled police constable Dave Wong (Daniel Wu) who inadvertently saves the life Hon Kong (Nick Cheung), the leader of the vicious gang of robbers called the Demon King Gang.
Wong didn't know who Hon is at the time and gives him a blood transfusion when he checks himself into a hospital Wong was stationed at, after getting involved in a road accident.
Wong later realises that his selfless act had allowed Hon, a cop-killer, to survive.
He is wracked with guilt when Hon escapes from hospital and pulls off a heist with his gang that leaves several police officers dead.
Wong becomes obsessed with Hon and vows to do whatever it takes to hunt him down and destroy the Demon King Gang, but finds himself treading the fine line between good and evil, as he confronts his own dark past along the way.
Unlike his hit films like “The Stool Pigeon” and "Unbeatable", which won Cheung a best actor trophy at this year's Hong Kong Film Awards, Lam's "That Demon Within" is much, much darker.
"That Demon Within" is set almost exclusively in some of Hong Kong's more run-down housing developments with numerous scenes at funerals and cemeteries, so much so that it almost seems like Lam is experimenting with the idea of putting horror elements into crime thrillers.
The film's music often invokes feelings of dread and seems to come straight out of a horror flick.
In the film, Wong also suffer from strange, disturbing visions that suggest supernatural forces are at work.
It is quite refreshing to see Lam take a slightly different approach toward a familiar genre and infuse the plot with the possibility of supernatural involvement.
Wu deserves praise for his excellent portrayal of the tortured Wong, whose dark past and obsession with Hon combine to trigger his psychosis.
Cheung gets relatively little screen time this time around, but absolutely sizzles whenever he shows up.
Lam’s long-time collaborator Liu Kai Chi stands out among the film’s supporting cast members and oozes malice as Broker, a shrewd, calculative member of the Demon King Gang.
Unfortunately, the film is a little too slow-moving in the middle and is perhaps too heavily focused on how Wong grapples with his inner demons.
The film still has its moments - the part where Wong shrewdly plays the robbers against one another in the final quarter of the film is truly engaging - but it doesn’t quite measure up when placed alongside Lam's past hits.
3/5 stars.
"That Demon Within" is now showing.
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