Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Leave Me Alone (HK 2004) Charlene Choi,Ekin Cheng


The movie Leave Me Alone (Ah ma yau nan) by director Danny Pang.

Plot (wikipedia)

Gay fashion designer Yiu Chun Man (Ekin Cheng) is visited in Hong Kong by his straight twin brother, Yiu Chun Kit (also Ekin Cheng). Kit borrows his brother’s driver’s license, and is then involved in a car crash in which a woman dies (see also Ab-normal Beauty), and Kit falls into a coma.
With no ID card, Man is unable to prove his identity, so he assumes the identity of his brother, and takes up with Kit’s girlfriend, Jane, (
Charlene Choi), and goes with her to Thailand. Jane, however, is has some money problems, and is deeply indebted to a loan shark (Chi Wah Wong), who pursues Man and Jane.
Kit comes out of his coma and finds himself struggling to fend off the amorous advances of Man's boyfriend (
Jan Lamb), who is a high-ranking Hong Kong police officer.

THOUGHTS:

This is movie where Ekin Cheng (know from the Young and Dangerous series) plays a dual role as twins in this flick. Charlene Choi of "TWINS" fame is Kit's girlfriend. Both do a great job. Ekin Cheng has done alot of movies but he is charming playing the twin brothers leaving the nuances of being both gay and straight very well. I found it entertaining even. It was weird seeing Charlene Choi having to act all "tough" as Jane with her cute baby face. She admitted in the "making the film" portions it was her first action flick.
The signature shooting and walking moves (a la "John Woo") and other HK movie directors is in this film. I liked the cameo by Kenny Bee as Charlene Choi's dad. It was funny especially in his first scene with the ridiculous hair!
Good fluffy action movie that has its charms but will never win any movie awards.

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