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Starring: Benz Hui,
Chapman To, Fiona Sit,
Tien You Chui, Wong Cho-lam
Director: Chan Hing Kai
Distributor: Ram Entertainment
Genre: Comedy
Release Date: 22 Jul 2010
Running Time: 1 Hour 45 Minutes,
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Movie Plot Summary:
A professional hit man (Chapman To) from China literally falls into the lap of a hapless nerdy screenwriter (Wong Cho Lam) and the two get close. The nerd welcomes his new friend and tells him his sad story involving a beautiful woman, naturally. She loves him but often throws tantrums and beats him up. From directors Chan Hing Kai and Janet Chun comes a comedy about one of humankind's oddest and silliest fantasies: love conquers all, complete with a devilish twist.
Movie Review :
The power of a funnyman: Take one look at him and you'll burst out laughing uncontrollably. That is how Chapman To and Wong Cho Lam are in "La Comedie Humaine"; you can't help but laugh when they appear on screen!
"La Comedie Humaine" is a story about an unnamed killer (Chapman To) who travels to Hong Kong with his partner Sunset (Benz Hui) for a killing assignment. Somehow or another, they both split up, with Sunset leaving a rooftop address to meet. Sadly, the killer met with an accident and was rescued by Soya (Wong Cho Lam), a screenwriter. The killer, who wakes up annoyed by Soya's undivided attention to him, tries to kill him but fails every time! Soya then tells him about his love story with Sky Love, a neurotic girl who abuses him all the time. An unlikely friendship blossoms between Soya and Seeto Chun Wan (the killer's fake name).
The movie is refreshingly hilarious, with two movie spoofs inserted in: "Assembly" (2007) and John Woo's mega hit "The Killers" (1989). Chapman To, Wong Cho Lam and Benz Hui are in their element, combining both imitation and impromptu within each scene to make this movie a rib-tickling fest. Several memorable scenes stood out, including one that needed Seeto Chun Wan to come up with a story in order to lie to Soya. The whole story concocted by him was riddled with movie titles, all taken from various DVDs around Soya's house! Now, THAT'S pure genius in screenwriting.
After bursting into the scene under TVB, Wong Cho Lam has been a phenomenon in his over-the-top acting. "La Comedie Humaine" has been nothing short of excellent acting by Cho Lam. Chapman To's Mainland China-ish accent and belly-baring shrunken outfits were nothing short of entertaining as well. Kudos should also be given to Fiona Sit, who plays a schizophrenic ex-girlfriend of Soya, who doesn't believe in Soya's commitment to their relationship due to her family issues.
Overall, "La Comedie Humaine" gave the reviewer a pleasant surprise, without displaying an extreme amount of satire like other Hollywood spoofs. Watch this movie if you like Wong Cho Lam and Chapman To's comical performance. Avoid this if you prefer to watch Wong Cho Lam strutting around in a girl's outfit like Handel a baby.
The latest collaboration between writer-directors Chan Hing Ka and Janet Chun is an uneven buddy comedy that isn't half as funny as it thinks it is, yet gets by thanks to charismatic turns from its lead actors.
Brother Spring (Chapman To) is a Mainland assassin, hiding out in Hong Kong. Separated from his partner, Setting Sun (Hui Siu Hung), Spring camps out at their agreed-upon rooftop rendezvous, only to collapse with a fever thanks to a freak cold snap. He is discovered by one of the building's tenants, a young, rather effeminate screenwriter named Soya (Wong Cho Lam), who takes him in and nurses him back to health. Spring commits himself to killing Soya the minute he recovers, but by the time he gets his strength back, the two have formed a grudging friendship. It transpires that Soya is nursing a broken heart, after his relationship to the beautiful, yet freakishly violent Sky Love (Fiona Sit) ended badly. Spring decides to help Soya regain his confidence and get her back, while also getting unwittingly involved with a pregnant teenager out for revenge.
While at first glance the premise of LA COMEDIE HUMAINE, in which a hitman teams up with a budding young filmmaker, may sound somewhat similar to Pang Ho Cheung's debut YOU SHOOT, I SHOOT, Chan's film lacks both the smarts and the social commentary of that film. While intermittently funny, LA COMEDIE HUMAINE meanders and rambles without really going anywhere or saying anything particularly smart. The second half in particular becomes overburdened by numerous subplots, such as Soya's film project and schoolgirl Maggie's (Kama Lo) decision to kill herself, none of which are very important to the main story or develop into anything cathartic or influential for those involved.
What saves the film, however, are the affable performances by Chapman To, Wong Cho Lam and Fiona Sit. Unsurprisingly To portrays Spring as a bit of a bumbling fool, not to mention a hopelessly incompetent assassin. He clowns around in the buff and reels off impersonations of Hong Kong A-listers such as Andy Lau and Donnie Yen with amusing proficiency and is an easy hero to get behind. Wong's Soya grates at first, but his timid attempts to woo Fiona Sit help the audience warm to him. Sit is so disarmingly attractive and wholesome it's almost impossible not to instantly like her character, even if it's never remotely plausible that she would be attracted to someone like Soya. It therefore makes perfect sense when Sky Love is revealed to be completely mental, prone to biting, slapping and volatile displays of emotional histrionics so unnerving that even a desperate lad like Soya can't bear to put up with her.
The film is littered with film references and other post-modern quirks, as both Spring and Soya are avid cineastes prone to quoting movies and name checking actors in even the most mundane conversations, but considering Chan's back catalogue includes such fantastic examples of crime-oriented satire as BEAST COPS and JIANG HU: THE TRIAD ZONE, it is disappointing how timid and unwilling LA COMEDIE HUMAINE is to plunder the plight of the hired gunman archetype for any decent laughs or observations. In the end we are left with a film that is neither as smart as it should have been, nor as funny as it believes itself to be. It is unfocused and in desperate need of an engaging plot, but does introduce us to a handful of quirky characters who are quietly unhinged yet somehow rather likable.
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