Genre: Horror, Drama, Fantasy
Starring:
Stephen Fung - Lau Sing
Gillian Chung - Siu Chin
Release year: 2006
Language: Cantonese
Subtitle: English
SYNOPSIS:
The background of the movie is the revolutionary period, medicine trader Shing Lau (Stephen Fung) bids farewell to his wife and daughter to lead a team of eight including himself to venture from their homeland to the provincial capital. Unfortunately, a huge fire takes the lives of all his seven bros, what's even worst is that he is entrapped by Pang Sai (Ho-Yin Wong), the one who actually set the fire, and serve the sentence for him instead. Lawyer Nam Sui Shin (Gillian Chung) promises to defend for Lau in order to prove her own ability but misses the hearing at the court because of an accident. This down turn makes Lau guilty at his trial and he is to be beheaded. During the execution, in a spark of fire, strange thing happens that change the fate of his life.
RATING: 7/10
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REVIEW:
" The main problem with the plot of “49 Days” is that it can never make up its mind as to what kind of film it should be, and around the halfway mark the viewer is left wondering whether the box art suggesting it to be some kind of supernatural thriller has been part of an elaborate hoax. Although the horror elements do eventually materialise via a predictable twist which most will see coming from the very start thanks to the rather self-explanatory title, the film is basically a melodrama, with more in the way of domestic angst and prison scenes than scares.
Visually, the film looks nice enough, albeit in a tourist information video sort of way, with quite blatantly airbrushed sunsets
and the like. The period setting is never particularly convincing, mainly since everything looks so clean and colourful. Even the supposedly deserted, decaying house set seems to suffer from nothing that a quick once over with a duster wouldn’t cure. The historical aspects of the film are further undermined by the patchy use of some rather pointless visual gimmicks such as split screen work, and Chinese characters appearing cartoon-like onscreen.
The whole affair has the distinct feel of a 1980s Hong Kong spooky film, in the manner of a decidedly poor relative to Tsui Hark’s classic “A Chinese Ghost Story”, packed with dodgy cultural references, neon lighting and inappropriate toilet humour. The soundtrack in particular, which sounds at times to have been composed using an electronic keyboard, only adds to this impression. However, this is by no means an unwelcome comparison, and is in fact quite refreshing in a genre which has come to be overbearingly populated by po-faced female ghosts.
More than anything, “49 Days” is, though undeniably nonsense, a lot of fun. Although it’s various plot threads never come together, revolving around far too many inconsistencies and inanities, the whole thing moves along at a merry pace, with plenty of action of one sort or another. Add in a few odd gore scenes and amusingly unconvincing characters, notably Gillian Chung as one of the most improbable lawyers ever committed to celluloid, and a cast whose idea of acting seems to consist mostly of eye-rolling and teeth-gnashing, and the end result is a piece of cheerfully entertaining trash, which should appeal to anyone with a soft spot for this sort of thing. "
Source: BeyondHollywood
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