
Plainclothes policemen Brian and Mike use an elderly woman's apartment for surveillance, hoping to catch a fugitive gangster. They develop a warm relationship with their hostess, whom they call "granny." Meanwhile, each man develops a romantic relationship: Brian with a strange wandering teenage girl, and Mike with a pregnant woman at the dry cleaning shop. When the gangster returns to his flat, Brian and Mike are forced into an explosive confrontation.... (Full plot summary below)
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Plainclothes policemen Brian and Mike use an elderly woman's apartment for surveillance, hoping to catch a fugitive gangster. They develop a warm relationship with their hostess, whom they call "granny." Meanwhile, each man develops a romantic relationship: Brian with a strange wandering teenage girl, and Mike with a pregnant woman at the dry cleaning shop. When the gangster returns to his flat, Brian and Mike are forced into an explosive confrontation.
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| User ReviewStéphane GUne claque ce film,les acteurs sont fantastiques et si vrai!!!! |
| User ReviewEric CI have no idea why it took me so long to discover this little gem of a movie. Pretty much every scene from beggining to end has its own whimsical charm. I appreciate how it starts out already disguised as a buddy cop drama, then turns into a relationship comedy, then turns into a melodrama-tragedy. I appreciate how each character are subtly introduced and don't have to be explicitly explained. They come and go just by happenstance, but once they are together, you can't help but care for them. That said, the filmmakers may have have bit off more than it could chew. about 2/3 into the movie, I felt that it kinda 'jumped the shark', if it had sustained its tempo and story arch from the beginning without succumbing to its melodramatic end... it would have made for a better movie. That said, I appreciate its experimental quality and rather refreshing character driven stuff. |
| User ReviewAdriano BOffbeat crime comedy with a (this time unexpected) bitter turn in the end. Really funny and tender, a winning mix of action and slice of lofe humour (think the opposite of Kindergarten Cop). |
| User ReviewWS WThe kind of story Hollywood likes to steal from Hong Kong, but never can do on its own. Good story and great characters. |
| User ReviewZachary LEven if Wilson Yip will continue making crappy actionflicks starring Donnie Yen forever, he will be forgiven thanks to Bullets Over Summer, a beautiful human drama disguised as a cop movie. Terrific acting. The playful report between Louis Koo and Francis Ng comes out very natural and real. I guess Wilson Yip is one of those filmmakers who only had one great movie in them really. |
| User ReviewPanda BBullets over summer est un polar honorable qui permet d'apprecier a la fois une intrigue policiere et une chronique sociale au coeur de Hong-Kong. On passe un meilleur moment qu'avec certains autres polar Hong-Kongais peut-etre un peu trop systematiques et on retrouve un peu de cette exploration de l'identite de l'ancienne colonie que Wong Kar-wai aime a mene dans ses films mais avec des objectifs tout differents. |
| User ReviewGregory WReally off-the-wall, almost parody-esque Wilson Yip film that is either phenomenal or terrible. I really can't tell. It could have been so much more. Still, Francis Ng and Louis Koo put in some amazing performances, and there's always visual genius going on with Yip at the helm. (Well, there WAS. Before all that Ip Man patriotic bullshit and all those films starring the awful, awful Donnie Yen.) |