The Beast Stalker (2008)

The Beast Stalker (DVDrip - 2008)
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Mandarin | Subtitle: Chinese trad.(vobsub)/English (.srt) | 107 min | XVid 672x352 | 224 kbps 2.0 AC3 | 25 fps | 1,4 Gb | PMCG
Genre : Action/Drama | rapidshare/megaupload/file-factory

Synopsis:

One fateful traffic accident brought together the lives of a wanted criminal, a police sergeant, a public prosecutor and her daughter in a dramatic action adventure about friendship, duty, love and hate....Directed by Dante Lam (“Beast Cops”), The Beast Stalker is a breathtaking yet moving action thriller, with excellence in action, story telling and cast, and even an exploration of humanity in some depth. Screened in the International Forum of New Cinema section of the 59th Berlin Film Festival, The Beast Stalker has turned into a hit both at the box office and with critics. Starring Nicholas Tse (“Invisible Target”), Nick Cheung (“Connected:”) and Zhang Jingchu (“Protégé”)

The Beast Stalkerdoesn’t appear terribly exciting on paper. Its major characters – a no-nonsense police sergeant (Nicholas Tse’s Tang Fei) seeking redemption, and a killer (Nick Cheung’s Hong Jing) pushed to the edge by the harsh reality while losing his eyesight – seem to be blighted by cliché, and the plot is ludicrous at best: a prosecuting counsel (Gao Min, played by Zhang Jingchu) in a criminal case has one of her twin daughters killed in an unconnected kidnapping by (guess what!) the same defendant, although, in what must be a breach of a dozen legal niceties, she is allowed to proceed with her prosecution.
As it turns out, coincidence is a key theme in Dante Lam’s surprisingly engaging cat-and-mouse game, with the fates of several characters intricately intertwined by one traffic accident, retold in various flashbacks at different points of the film (one of them being the final twist of the story). As Tang tries desperately to rescue Gao’s remaining daughter (kidnapped by Hong under the defendant’s orders), this gritty drama slowly reveals its characters’ compassion and humanity.
Amid flashes of ultra-violence and moments of formidable dramatic impact, Lam flirts with perverse greatness with what is potentially very dark material, before opting to take the easy route and stay in strictly PC territory. Given the ferocious emotional intensity and the acute sense of fatalism permeating the proceedings, The Beast Stalker plays like a Greek tragedy with a happy ending.
A brutal masterpiece this is not, but Lam’s captivating crime thriller certainly reveals a director near the top of his game. Edmund Lee – TimeOut Hong Kong


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