Mad Detective (2007)

Recommended

Hong Kong

Feature Film

Original Title: 神探

Directors: Johnnie To, Wai Ka Fai

Writers: Au Kin Yee, Wai Ka Fai

Cinematographer: Cheng Siu Keung

Composer: Xavier Jamaux

Cast: Lau Ching Wan, Andy On, Lam Ka Tung, Kelly Lin, Lee Kwok Lun, Karen Lee, Flora Chan, Cheung Siu Fai, Lam Suet, Lau Kam Ling

Incredibly convoluted (but pleasingly so), To and Wai’s entertaining film – in which a former police detective (who can see, or at least claims to be able to see, people’s inner personalities) is enlisted by a young former colleague to investigate the case of a missing policeman whose gun has been used in a number of armed robberies – proves to be a slight but memorably inventive work, which is guaranteed, by its bonkers finale, to leave even the most attentive of viewers scratching their heads. Iain.Stott