'Z' fung bou

Very detailed criminalogy, you can just go on and watch again and again.

Smart and well-designed, but almost boring, espionage and politics (read corruption) are not to my liking, but we have a fine example of institutional and governmental corruption, we'll move on to the second, much less enthusiastic...

Z Storm is about agents from the anti-corruption agency ICAC investigating a major conspiracy in Hong Kong involving high-ranked individuals. The investigation leader is William Luk, one of those tough but good guys.

I stopped watching this movie abruptly. The main reason is because I got bored of it. But it is not your general boring, "can't stand this stuff" type of thing; it's boring in a unique way. The best explanation I can think of is this movie feels like a Mexican soap opera. You jump from one segment to the next as short rushed events. Although canon, you feel like someone is telling you a story while late to take the train. By halftime, I was too bored by the plot to try to continue.

The plot itself is interesting enough for something good to arise. But the feeling of nothingness in the main events destroys the entertainment.

There was a time were I would painfully do my best to get to the end of any movie no matter what. Today, after a while, if I'm not hooked into the movie, I create a sincere review and move on.

A 2 because my culture might have biased my experience.

Yes the movie is quite predictable and you may find yourself wondering why certain elements are not being exploited earlier in the movie. Having said that there are quite a few fun performances here. And when I say fun I mean good ones. If you are familiar with Hong Kong cinema, you may even recognize some of the actors.

It's an action thriller and based on that (rating or looking at the stunts), this is a success. This is not Shakespeare or high drama (although it does contain some amount of that too of course), but something that can be a rollercoaster ride. A good versus evil theme, even if some of the bad ones are disguised as "good people". This is not Infernal Affairs, but not every movie can be that. That doesn't take anything away from the entertainment this can provide

It's not bad, but it's just so...boring...I can deal with there being almost no action (obviously I'd prefer some proper action as well) if other elements are good enough, but there is a severe lack of any actual thrill in the movie as well, so it fails as a thriller too. The story and the directing is mediocre all around too. It's not awful or anyhing, and the actors do a good job, but god, this movie is so tediously average...The action at the very end is the only exciting part, and that too is average at best.