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Information
- A.k.a.
- Blind Detective
- Year
- 2013
- Runtime
- 130 min.
- Director
- Johnnie To
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Comedy, Thriller
- Rating *
- 6.5
- Votes *
- 2,141
- Checks
- 169
- Favs
- 8
- Dislikes
- 4
- Favs/checks
- 4.7% (1:21)
- Favs/dislikes
- 2:1
Top comments
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Siskoid
Though the formula is similar to his Mad Detective - an impaired former police detective helps a rookie cop on a case - Blind Detective goes for comedy rather than drama, and is often quite loopy. Andy Lau is paired up with Sammi Cheng in these respective roles (a combination To has often used in his romcoms, which this also dips into). He's blind, but he has the ability to see crimes by putting himself in the head of the people involved - again, very Mad Detective - though it feels a lot like a parody of that previous film and a take-down of what actors call "the Method". I'm into it. So he's a Daredevil sort of blind, but when it comes to affairs of the heart, he's as blind as we are, leading to amusing misunderstandings. Cheng plays a hapless junior detective looking for a childhood friend she abandoned and who then disappeared, so she feels responsible. What unfolds is a series of cold case solutions, crazy mentoring, and well-tuned screwball romance. Not upper-tier Johnnie To, but it's a lot of fun anyway. 11 months ago