Mad Detective

2007 [CHINESE]

Action / Crime / Mystery / Thriller

15
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 80% · 20 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 85% · 2.5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 8421 8.4K

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Plot summary

Bun, a schizophrenic, former police inspector comes out of retirement to help a rookie detective solve a complex murder case involving a missing colleague and a suspected policeman suffering from a multiple personality disorder.

Director

Johnnie To Photo
Johnnie To

Top cast

Andy On Photo
Andy On as Inspector Ho Ka-on
Soi Cheang Photo
Soi Cheang as Inspector Ho Ka-on
Siu-Fai Cheung Photo
Siu-Fai Cheung as Violent Man - Ko's Inner Personality
Jonathan Yat-Sing Lee Photo
Jonathan Yat-Sing Lee as Weak Boy - Ho's Inner Personality
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821.71 MB
1280*538
Chinese 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 29 min
Seeds 1
1.65 GB
1904*800
Chinese 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 29 min
Seeds 11

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by morrison-dylan-fan 8 / 10

Innermost thoughts.

Reviewed by boblipton 6 / 10

Too Many Questions, Too Few Answers

Eighteen months before this movie begins, two cops pursued a suspect into a forest. The suspect got away. One cop came out. Since then, the missing man's gun has been used in a wide variety of robberies. Inspector Andy On is in charge of the case so far as the robberies and attendant murders are concerned. He has run out of leads. So he recruits Ching-Wan Lau, a disgraced former cop whose career ended in apparent madness in which he claimed supernatural powers.There's no madness in the Chinese title; it means "Hard Boiled." The English title is supposed to clue the audience into the fact that there's at least one insane cop here, but as the story advances, the question of who is mad becomes murky. Is it On, whose efforts to close the case become increasingly unhinged? Is it Lau, who has ceased to take his prescribed anti-psychotic medicines, and who has constructed a fantasy world in which he is still with his ex-wife, Kelly Lin? Or is it the dead man's partner, who says he is investigating what he believes is his partner's murder? It all ends in a shoot-out in a hall of mirrors, but will anything really be resolved?Directors Johnny To and Ka-Fai Wai have created another stylish crime drama in To's signature blue-lit world in the midst of blackness that constantly shifts the size and shape of the audience's frame. It's all very interesting to watch, but in the end there is no release from the nightmare world that is traditional for detective stories, even one as murky as this.
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