Missing

Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Romance
Starring: Chen Chang, Xiaodong Guo, Angelica Lee, Isabella Leong, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Zhen-yue Zhang
Release year: 2008
Language: Chinese - Cantonese
Subtitle: English

SYNOPSIS:
A scuba diving trip turns into a nightmare when psychiatrist Gao Jing (Angelica Lee) and her boyfriend Guo Dong (Guo Xiaodong) meet tragedy at sea. Suffering from memory loss after the incident, Gao Jing can't remember what exactly happened in the ocean that day, and all that is recovered of Guo Dong is a headless corpse. Upset that Gao Jing is going ahead with the funeral, Guo Dong's sister Xiao Kai (Isabella Leong) angrily sets out to find her brother's head. Gao Jing looks for closure through therapy but only ends up with more questions and heartache. When her patient Simon (Chang Chen) claims that he can see Guo Dong's ghost, Gao Jing seeks his guidance to open her eyes and mind to the other side. Soon she's seeing visitors of all sorts, but no Guo Dong. At this time, a strangely eerie Xiao Kai suddenly returns to Hong Kong with her brother's head. But is it really Guo Dong's head that Xiao Kai has brought back?

RATING: 7/10
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REVIEW:
" Missing is a multi-genre film, but it basically sticks to two genres - romance and horror - and nixes the comedy or across-the-board emotion that usually makes it easier to forgive Tsui's cheesy excesses. Movies like Time and Tide and Love in the Time of Twilight were more successful than expected because they dabbled in multiple genres and emotions, and did so breathlessly, such that audiences were so busy trying to catch up that they glossed over the silly stuff. Missing does possess some of the same feel, especially during the development of the ghost-seeing storyline, but the bottom line of the film is that it's a love story. And not just any love story, but an overwrought, overlong and interminable love story that's so exhausting that a viewer will likely not care much about the lovers once the film ends. Angelica Lee is a fine actress, and plays her part without a hint of irony or self-preservation, but Tsui Hark essentially puts her out on a limb and lets her fend for herself. Unfortunately, the limb breaks.

Missing is simply misguided, and not in a way that makes it tolerable. Its story and strange concepts are at least diverting, and the visuals and sound design (the film possesses creative and quite loud sound) are involving enough for a portion of the running time. Unfortunately, the film suffers from the dreaded Curse of China Co-production™, and attempts to please Mainland censors while not trying to undermine itself. The filmmakers fail miserably at that, however, taking most of their ideas and flushing them down the toilet willingly - all to please a ratings board that delights in banning supernatural concepts, depictions of incompetent Chinese authority, and movies starring Sharon Stone. Incomplete ideas, abandoned characters, and multiple climaxes send Missing off a cliff, such that the words "tiresome", "irritating", and "unbelievable" could be invoked. There's an attempt at compelling emotion here, and Tsui Hark sells it via every ounce of his writer/producer/director credit. But he takes way too long to get where he's going, and his bag of tricks is so labored and even bewildering that it ultimately repels instead of seduces. Heart and creativity aren't missing from Missing, but judgement and restraint are. A good editor would help, too. "

Source: LoveHKfilm

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