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‘Limbo’ Review: A Stylish but Sordid Hong Kong Cop Thriller That Doesn’t Know When to Quit
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variety.comJessica Kiang Oh great, another movie about dead girls and the grizzled cop/greenhorn cop duo tracking their killer. At least “Limbo,” from Soi Cheang (the “Monkey King” franchise) looks slick — 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’s fondness for torturing women to motivate men remains sadly intact.
Who are we kidding: These movies are never about the dead girls.In a needlessly confusing flash-forward, we’re in a garbage-strewn alleyway, nestled beneath a stretch of elevated train line lit by sizzling.
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