Love Generation Hong Kong (1998)
Reviewed by: ryan on 1999-11-21
Summary: Love Generation Hong Kong (1998)
The relationship between between Bill GAY (Leon LAI) and Maggie (Carina LAU) was broken 6 years ago as Maggie want to let Bill concentrate on his career development. After 6 years, Bill is one of the rich businessman in the world and start the relationship with a Japanese actress Joey (HSU Chi). At the same time, Bill's best friend (Mark LUI)'s daughter Moon (LEE Ann) becomes his personal secretary. Once when Bill come to Japan, he meets Maggie again but Maggie said that she would marry with the head of underground Brother Peace (CHENG Ho-nam) in 2 weeks' time. Bill tries every effort in order to get back Maggie,......

If you are Japanese TV fan, you will know that the name of 'Love Generation Hong Kong' comes from one of the Japanese TV dramas. This time WONG Jing try to make a love comedy with serveral actress and tried to make the love story fun and meaningful.

In the plot, WONG Jing tried very hard for presenting the relationships between Bill and Maggie. I think he is successful at this point. In the scene of broken up, WONG tried to use third-party for presentation which is adequate. On the other hand, it seems that the extent for presenting the relationship between Moon and Bill is not enough. If there are more scenes showing how Moon like Bill, it would be more enjoyable and impressive.

For the plot, WONG Jing is clever by putting lots of elements into the movie. Though some of the jokes are dirty, some of them still works. I cannot say too much about it but some of them are out of your expectation. :p

In terms of performance, I think HSU Chi is still the most outstanding performer in the movie. She is shining! For Leon, I think he has tried hard. I'm a bit surprised as he has lots of scenes for emotional scenes for depressions. This is very rare in his past movies. It seems that Carina LAU has got enough for her but she has given her best. For LEE Ann, it is difficult to say as there are not many descriptions and dialogues for her.

This summer WONG Jing has directed 'A True Mob Story' and 'Love Generation Hong Kong'. I perfer 'A True Mob Story' more.