Jin shouzhi (The Goldfinger) (2023)

January 2, 2024 9:53 AM

A criminal conspiracy is uncovered when the stock market crashes in Hong Kong.
posted by Anonymous (1 comment total)

Structurally kind of a mess, but overall I had a fun time with this one. The movie didn't seem to know whether it wanted to be a morality tale against corruption and greed or an Icarian tragedy with a villain protagonist. It seemed to lean into the second more, but the law and justice prevailing over all messaging was very insistent towards the end.

The costuming and set designs are a lot of the draw, and Leung's performance is most of the remainder. Fun to see that era of Hong Kong re-interpreted through a modern perspective.
posted by C^3 at 10:04 PM on January 8, 2024