If commonly it’s Hollywood that took ideas from Asian film, now it’s turn for Hong Kong to borrow from Hollywood. But from many good titles, why director Benny Chan has chosen to remake a mediocre film like “Cellular,” is probably something that can make us scratched our head a little. The original version was released on 2004 and starred Chris Evans, Kim Basinger and Jason Statham. For Asian audiences, the entertaining and suspenseful thrill ride has adapted to a title “Connected” with stars such as Louis Koo (Rob-B-Hood) who taken the everyman hero played in the Hollywood version by Chris Evans, Barbie Xu (Meteor Garden) in the role originated by the older Kim Basinger, Liu Ye (Blood Brothers), Nick Cheung (Exiled), Louis Fan (The Moss), Eddie Cheung (Election), TVB actor Wong Cho Lam and model Ankie Beilke in key supporting roles. The film has just opened in multiplexes around Asia last September, but now it’s already up for the DVD release that had scheduled on this December 4.
In the film, Bob (Louis Koo)’s life isn’t going well at all. A single father in a dead-end job as a debt collector, he’s trapped in a job that goes against his usual easy-going helpful nature and he’s under tremendous pressure to be a better dad, a better brother, a better worker, even a better person. While dealing with all this and his sister (Flora Chan)’s threat to move to China with his son to force him to clean up his act, Bob receives a call out of the blue. It’s a stranger called Grace(Barbie Hsu) who claims a mysterious kidnapper(Liu Ye) is keeping her against her will and begs him to save her and her young daughter. Is it just a heartless prank? The detective (Nick Cheung) he tried reporting the call to seem to think so but Bob’s instincts tell him that he may just be the only thing standing between them and a painful death. But does he have the mettle to rise above his own self-centered concerns and risk everything – including his own son – for two people he has never met and who may not even exist?
Like its original version, “Connected” is also just a fun and thrilling suspense ride that sometimes quite success to grab our attention. As a fun entertaining movie in the weekend, this one is still recommended.
DVD specifications:
Product Title: Connected (DVD) (Hong Kong Version)
Language: Mandarin, Cantonese
Subtitles: Traditional Chinese, English, Simplified Chinese
Picture Format: NTSC
Region Code: 3 - South East Asia (including Hong Kong, S. Korea and Taiwan)
Publisher: Joy Sales (HK)
Release Date: 2008-12-04 (Save your copy)
In the film, Bob (Louis Koo)’s life isn’t going well at all. A single father in a dead-end job as a debt collector, he’s trapped in a job that goes against his usual easy-going helpful nature and he’s under tremendous pressure to be a better dad, a better brother, a better worker, even a better person. While dealing with all this and his sister (Flora Chan)’s threat to move to China with his son to force him to clean up his act, Bob receives a call out of the blue. It’s a stranger called Grace(Barbie Hsu) who claims a mysterious kidnapper(Liu Ye) is keeping her against her will and begs him to save her and her young daughter. Is it just a heartless prank? The detective (Nick Cheung) he tried reporting the call to seem to think so but Bob’s instincts tell him that he may just be the only thing standing between them and a painful death. But does he have the mettle to rise above his own self-centered concerns and risk everything – including his own son – for two people he has never met and who may not even exist?
Like its original version, “Connected” is also just a fun and thrilling suspense ride that sometimes quite success to grab our attention. As a fun entertaining movie in the weekend, this one is still recommended.
DVD specifications:
Product Title: Connected (DVD) (Hong Kong Version)
Language: Mandarin, Cantonese
Subtitles: Traditional Chinese, English, Simplified Chinese
Picture Format: NTSC
Region Code: 3 - South East Asia (including Hong Kong, S. Korea and Taiwan)
Publisher: Joy Sales (HK)
Release Date: 2008-12-04 (Save your copy)
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