{"id":199417,"date":"2021-03-11T11:02:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T08:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-limbo-review-a-sordid-cop-thriller-that-doesnt-know-when-to-quit\/"},"modified":"2021-03-11T11:02:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T08:02:09","slug":"watch-limbo-review-a-sordid-cop-thriller-that-doesnt-know-when-to-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-limbo-review-a-sordid-cop-thriller-that-doesnt-know-when-to-quit\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Limbo&#8217; Review: A Sordid Cop Thriller That Doesn&#8217;t Know When to Quit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a415578a1b17\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a415578a1b17\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-limbo-review-a-sordid-cop-thriller-that-doesnt-know-when-to-quit\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Limbo_Review_A_Sordid_Cop_Thriller_That_Doesnt_Know_When_to_Quit%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Limbo&#8217; Review: A Sordid Cop Thriller That Doesn&#8217;t Know When to Quit&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-limbo-review-a-sordid-cop-thriller-that-doesnt-know-when-to-quit\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Limbo_Review_A_Sordid_Cop_Thriller_That_Doesnt_Know_When_to_Quit%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Limbo&#8217; Review: A Sordid Cop Thriller That Doesn&#8217;t Know When to Quit&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Limbo_Review_A_Sordid_Cop_Thriller_That_Doesnt_Know_When_to_Quit%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Limbo&#8217; Review: A Sordid Cop Thriller That Doesn&#8217;t Know When to Quit&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Limbo_Review_A_Sordid_Cop_Thriller_That_Doesnt_Know_When_to_Quit%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Limbo&#8217; Review: A Sordid Cop Thriller That Doesn&#8217;t Know When to Quit&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        Oh great, another movie about dead girls and the grizzled cop\/greenhorn cop duo tracking their killer. At least \u201cLimbo,\u201d from Soi Cheang (the \u201cMonkey King\u201d franchise) looks slick \u2014 often literally, with photogenic rain showers making its trashed Hong Kong slum locations as reflective as silver. The monochrome gloss smoothes over the joints between chunks of narrative and stock characters that seem lifted wholesale from other cop thrillers, though the genre\u2019s fondness for torturing women to motivate men remains sadly intact. Who are we kidding: These <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> are never <em>about<\/em> the dead girls.<\/p>\n<p>In a needlessly confusing flash-forward, we\u2019re in a garbage-strewn alleyway, nestled beneath a stretch of elevated train line lit by sizzling neon signage, the lights of the city\u2019s more salubrious skyscraper districts far in the distance. A beat-up guy tries to catch his breath; another is on his knees, sobbing; and a half-naked girl, bound at the wrists, whimpers in a box. It is raining.<\/p>\n<p>Already here, DP Cheng Siu Keung\u2019s dazzling black-and-white, hi-def photography hints it will be the movie\u2019s MVP, delivering a classic urban noir aesthetic updated to the 4k digital age. Anamorphic widescreen cityscapes buckle at the edges to cram in more detail; sometimes the fish-eye effect gives a first-person-shooter vibe to a moving shot, and when the camera is still, Mak Kwok Keung\u2019s exhaustingly maximalist production design looks like a hidden object video<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">App<\/a>ropriate, given one might spend quite some time hunting through the clutter for a point.<\/p>\n<p>The two men are Will Ren (Mason Lee), the well-dressed newbie who\u2019s been installed in a senior position despite little practical experience, and Cham Lau (Lam Ka Tung), the rumpled long-timer whose gruff approach belies his keen detective instincts. They\u2019ve been partnered to lead the investigation into the killing of a young woman whose left hand was found severed from her body. Cham has just found another left hand, and when a left-hand-less <em>third<\/em> body shows up, they know it\u2019s a serial killer case. The only thing the victims have in common is drug abuse, otherwise they were \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> outcasts, nobody cared about them,\u201d says Will, which is cool because that way we don\u2019t have to care about them either. Au Kin Yee\u2019s screenplay certainly doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a complicating factor, though. Cham\u2019s wife has been on life support since a car accident caused by young addict Wang To (Liu Cya), and when Cham spots To, who\u2019s just been released, the red mist descends and he pursues and practically kills her. To, already wracked with guilt, begs his forgiveness \u2013\u2014 it\u2019s explicitly <em>his<\/em> forgiveness she must earn \u2014 and offers to turn informer as recompense. Cham slaps her around a bit more, and sells her out to the gang she\u2019s just betrayed, but eventually realizes she might be useful in the hunt for the killer.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, \u201cLimbo\u201d is quite some Fincherian fun, cycling through tropes we\u2019ve seen before (like the well-known penchant in the serial killing community for decorating one\u2019s lair with discarded store mannequins) but doing so with panache. And the action scenes are well mounted, symphonically choreographed to make the most of Cheng\u2019s camerawork and the glowering ruined Hong Kong backstreets where they play out. But at some point the creeping unease at just how much of the film\u2019s violence is visited on the slight, pitiful Wang To flares into all-out discomfort.<\/p>\n<p>Once Will also turns on her, having suffered the potentially career-ending loss of his gun, it becomes clear that the continued assaults on Wang To are no longer about upping the stakes, but a deliberately exploitative narrative choice. Every \u201crescue\u201d is delayed until after some guy \u2014 often one of the ostensible \u201cgood guys\u201d \u2014 has had time to deal her another beating. Or drag her, face down, across another filthy alley floor. Or fling her against a wall. Or toss her out of an upper-story window. Or subject her to a brutal rape.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s almost a relief when at the end, Will, whose worst pain until then has been wisdom-tooth trouble and gun-loss embarrassment, finally gets a rain-soaked beat-down of his own. But even then, the film\u2019s coda refocuses attention back onto his plight, as if by this stage anyone gives a discarded mannequin arm if he ever finds his stupid gun again. The movie\u2019s assumption that we\u2019re as invested in this callow young man\u2019s future on the force as we are in the life or death of the lead female, is an odd one. \u201cWhy do you treat me like this?\u201d wails Wang To, after her gazillionth humiliation. 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