What Price Survival (1994)
Reviewed by: hkcinema on 1999-12-08
Even allowing that Lee Yan-Kong is directing for the first time, this film is quite unsatisfactory. Obviously he is trying to shoot a film in the manner of someone drawing a manhwa (Chinese "comics"). This is his first mistake. The other is the story itself is filled with weak manhwa cliches and plot devices. So instead of a mediocre manhwa, the result is a movie with even less to offer. Despite a pretty good cast, the characters have no heart and feeling. Acting is wooden. The cinematography is the only decent element in what I feel to be one of the worse commercial grade HK movies of 1994.

(3.3/10)



[Reviewed by Christopher Fu]