Don LEE (Louis KOO) was released after his 12 years' prison for killing an important guy. When he was released, Chan Hung asked him to kill the president candidate but he failed while his past partner Max MAK (Julian CHEUNG) did it. Everyone consider Don as the Suspect and Don tries his best to tell everyone the mastermind......

From the poster and the title, it seems that 'The Suspect' is something like Hollywood movie 'The Usual Suspects'. In fact, they have some points similiar as they are also playing a game in finding the real mastermind but in different focus and approach. 'The Suspect' is a movie with more action and you don't need to worry to think too much about the movie.

You may consider this movie like Ringo LAM's previous moive 'FULL ALERT' (1997). If you are, please don't put such assumptions or you'll be very uncomfortable. The reason is that 'The Suspect' is a movie taken from South East Asia, half of the dialogues are in English. There are only tiny elements about Hong Kong. I think it's more like 'The Adventurer' (1995).

On the whole, Ringo LAM has tried to put his efforts in action design and meanings behind the movie. You will find that some of the action scenes are really cool. You can find the action scenes which can only be filmed out of Hong kong. The pace for the whole movie is adequate.

For performance, I think Louis KOO and Julian CHEUNG has tried hard in playing their roles. The outlook of Julian as Max is really cool. For Ray LUI, I think it's also a good casting except that I think he has been stereotyped.

In terms of the plot, due to it's lack of Hong Kong elements, 'The Suspect' does not look like a Hong Kong movie. For the performance of the plot...... it's also similiar to 'The Adventurer'.

One point to add is that this movie is equipped with SR-D (Surround Dolby Digital) effects and it's effect is quite cool.