Fresh
A stylishly funky Hong Kong thriller from cult director Johnnie To and co-writer/codirector Wai Ka Fai.
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Mad Detective
I can see a person's inner personality.
2007 · 1h 31m · Not Rated
Action, Crime, Thriller
Directed by
Johnnie To
,
Wai Ka-Fai
Overview
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 and cast
- Johnnie To Director
- Wai Ka-Fai Director
- Sean Lau Ching-Wan as Inspector Chan Kwai Bun
- Andy On as Inspector Ho Ka On
- Gordon Lam Ka-Tung as Ko Chi Wai (as Lam Ka Tung)
- Kelly Lin Hsi-Lei as May Cheung
- Joseph Lee Kwok-Lun as Wong Kwok Chu (as Lee Kwok Lun)
- Karen Lee Choi-Ling as Gigi
- Flora Chan Cast
- Flora Chan Wai-Shan Cast
- Eddie Cheung Siu-Fai Cast
- Lam Suet Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
80%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Mad Detective doesn't always make sense, and you cannot always tell what is real and what is imaginary, but viewers will be having too much zonked-out fun to care.
V.A. Musetto, New York Post
Fresh
If the insanely inventive and entertaining Mad Detective weren't so weird -- and in Cantonese -- hordes of action geeks would be lining the block to see it.
Manohla Dargis, New York Times
Fresh
Fleeting confusion and bizarre literalization aside, Mad Detective is an effective mystery story, with an oddball hero -- like TV's Monk, but far crazier -- and some moments of visceral violence that raise the stakes.
Noel Murray, AV Club
Fresh
Every moment in Mad Detective seems engineered for maximum oddity; it almost becomes overwhelming...Yet the movie feels adventuresome, too, a new bridge to Asiaa(TM)s soulful ghost canon. Ita(TM)s a metaphysical mystery masquerading as a doodle.
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
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