MAD DETECTIVE World Cinema

Back together at the helm, Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai set incendiary cinematic material ablaze to create a fiery action drama. This film is both a thrilling adventure exposing the dark side of Hong Kong’s police force and a fascinating journey in the meanderings of a contorted mind.

In one of his best performances to date, Lau Ching-wan play the multi-dimensional role of Bun, an outcast detective whose psychotic personality and unorthodox investigative methods have cost him his job even though he always solved the cases entrusted to him. The only person who still believes in Bun is the power hungry inspector Ho (Andy On). Ho is determined to solve the complex case of a missing police gun and its vanished owner, Wong (Lee Kwok Lun).

The consummate skill of To and Wai in scripting and directing a complex story of crime and madness carries the film from start to finish.