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Eye in the Sky
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List Price: $19.95
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Manufacturer: Tai Seng
Starring: Tony Leung Kar-Fai, Simon Yam, Cheung Siu Fai, Maggie Shiu, Lam Suet
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Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0112118982014
Format: AC-3
Label: Tai Seng
Manufacturer: Tai Seng
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Tai Seng
Region Code: 0
Release Date: 2008-01-22
Running Time: 90
Studio: Tai Seng
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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Summary: One of Milkyway's best movies
Comment: I'm finding that I like the Milkyway Image movies where Johnnie To is just a producer more than the ones where he is the director, though Breaking News was pretty good. Eye in the Sky starts off with Kate Tsui on a training mission to see if she is good enough to become a cop in a special surveillance unit. She has to study Simon Yam and be able to give every detail of what he did during the day. And just like every Milkyway movie I have seen, they connect a certain scene at the start of the movie with one that happens towards the end. So she gets the job, but just barely. Simon Yam thinks she has potential, so he decides to let her on the force. Tony Leung Ka Fei plays the leader of a gang of bank robbers. He sets everything up, and the rest of the guys do the roberies. So now of course this is where Kate Tsui and Simon Yam come in and try to catch him.
This is a pretty standard story, but well done. I enjoyed the movie a lot. Kate Tsui does a decent enough job in her role, Simon Yam is good just like he usually is, and Tony Leung gives a magnificent performance. I thought the last couple of scenes were kind of disappointing, but the scene towards the end with Tony Leung and Kate Tsui in the restauarant, and the scene where Simon Yam struggles to finish his joke makes up for it.
If you are looking for a good cop movie that has a couple of well done sudden violent moments, then there is a good chance you will like this. If you are looking for an action packed or highly stylized movie, look elsewhere.
And one more note. This movie is a tight 90 minutes (actually more like 85 if you don't include the beginning and opening credits), which is one of the many reasons why I liked it. And it doesn't feel like it should have been longer. Movies to me are getting too long these days.
4/5
The picture quality and subtitles on the Tai Seng DVD are good. The only special features are the original trailer, and a 22 minute press conference/opening night showing combined with interviews with first time director and long time Johnnie To script writer Yau Nai Hoi, and other people like executive producer Tsui Siu Ming, who in case you didn't know was the director and villain of a kung fu movie called Buddhist Fist made way back in 1980. Odd thing to mention, I know, but I couldn't resist.
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