A Gilded Game

I feel like Herman Yau is really leaning into the two-strip Technicolor look of the digital cameras they’re using in China now, and I think that’s neat.

Will Sloan

„A man can be destroyed but not defeated.“ „Excessive capitalism is bad, but capitalism is still fundamentally good“ type of movie. And yes, they quote Hemingway to prove that point. What starts off as Wall Street (1987), but where the protégé is the „greed is good“ guy,…

mumon

Herman Yau's attempt at a Wall Street for Mainland China. Shout out to sharp suits and functional alcoholism. Review for subscribers only at The Chinese Cinema.

Sean Gilman

Herman Yau's populist movies are at their best when they don’t conventionally work, and this high-finance morality thriller is very pleased to remain fairly slick. The central tale isn’t always convincing, but there are a lot of pleasures on the sides. Like a lot of similar…

Filipe Furtado

When the lead ate dog food I turned to Will and asked “is this the Herman Yau touch”?

Ethan Vestby

Easily one of Yau's more perplexing films, indebted to a triad notion of trust and betrayal as if Yau were revisiting the exaggerated grounds of The Mobfathers albeit filtered through incomprehensible financial negotiations which add up to little more than an expensive…

Jack Russo

I was inspired by Todd Cheung

mari 𖹭 美心

Something like Johnnie To's OFFICE with the spirit of heroic bloodshed and the aesthetic DNA of SPEED RACER. Yau opts for the large bolded-font "HONG KONG, CHINA" title card three times here, which I have to imagine is for ironic effect. I don't think he ever mentions which…

Thom

I think this is the worst movie I’ve ever seen

Joey R