Um Momento de Romance

A surprising gem that reaches the highest standard of genre storytelling, pushing its limits into the realm of true art, that which challenges AND moves its viewer. It may be Andy Lau Tak-wah's best role to date. The plot involves gangster Lau's affair with a young rich girl. The melodrama however, quickly reveals itself as the profile of a man desperate to salvage the last scrap of his own moral code. The foolish but romantic character of the upper class teenaged May is best seen as the flesh and blood manifestation of Lau's secret wish for a clean, happy life that he can never have. She represents his own moral potential that could never have flowered in a life devoid of family love and filled instead with poverty, corruption and desperation. Rising just enough above his fellow gangsters to know that he has missed something precious, he recognizes his own lost innocence in the young girl he has taken hostage. His gang brothers demand that he kill her. But, unable to overcome the last vestige of decency left in him. He lets her go instead. This choice, this one act of honor has profound unforseeable consequences for his life and his character. This film delivers hard boiled action, a fragile love story and and a pithy character study for Lau. It explores the personal cost of embracing moral action, the responsibilities of caring and ultimately asks what defines a worthy life. (from Andylausound)

This movie is one of the greatest action-packed love story movies of all time since the releasing in 1990. This film is also being one of the best Hong Kong films forever, in my opinion. The main male character, Andy Lau (Lau tak wah), acts as Wah Dee, a young triad orphan gangster in Hong Kong who gotten raised by a group of prostitutes who are his mother's workmates in brothel. For main female character actress, Wu Chien Lien plays the part of Jojo, a 17-years-old rich heiress gotten captured as a hostage by Wah Dee during his escape from the police officers.

The character of Wah Dee is the most famous Andy Lau's iconic of all time. Everything about this character's traits, clothing, hair style, and personalities fits 29-years-old Andy Lau perfectly. He is really handsome and shinning in that movie to the point that it created effects to a lot of male teenagers and mans in my country in 1990s, everyone tried to dress like him and copy many of his things in the movie, such as, riding Big Bike motorcycle and smoking. Moreover, the Big Bike motorcycle ridden by Andy Lau in the movie was suddenly popular and being the icon of this movie until nowadays, and that motorcycle is Suzuki RG Gamma 500. On the other hand, the character of Jojo did not affect female teenager and women that much, however, her character is recognized to be a model of woman whom wanted to be married by Asian mans in that era.

This movie's duration is 1 hour and 32 minutes. The storyline runs smoothly and manually show the development of relationship with great pace, neither too fast nor too slow, and is not complicated to understand. Each scene is connected and reasonable, it clearly shows the causes of each events, the changes of characters, and the results. Every actor performs wonderfully, including those who are not main characters. The tense emotions, aggressive tone of voice, and precious fighting actions. Their expressions are amazing, these factors make me feel connected to them. The friendships, brotherhoods, bonds, and loyalties depicted in this movie is heartwarming. The chemistry between Wah Dee and Jojo which seems to be impossible at first turns to be a timeless bittersweet romance story. The most impressing scene for me is the ending scene, both the song itself and the song's meaning in that scene completes the atmosphere, story, and ending flawlessly.

This movie once created massive impact in Asia, though it is produced with not much budget, but it is undoubted to be one of the greatest romantic movies of all time and it is still recognized to be great memory of people in that era as well. And even it has already passed for 3 decades, yet it still can create huge impact to me who was born in 2000s. I decided to buy a motorcycle due to this. My sense of fashion is also inspired by watching this movie as well.

This movie introduced me to the HK movie industry 15 years ago and it proves that it is in no way inferior to that of Hollywood. There is fantastic acting and the story is truly original, especially for its time. The characters feel real and the passion pours through the screen. I have since been a loyal Andy Lau movie fan, rarely disappointed by his 100 + movies.

The story involves romance, loyalty, friendship, and trust. I actually saw this movie when I was 10 years old and I knew nothing about love, but yet I felt the great emotion in the film. I highly recommend this film. It is 15 years old, but is a great romantic drama, as I still vividly remember it till this day.

I was lucky enough to pick this film up in Vancouver, and I am glad I did. This is one of the best foreign films I have ever seen, and I have seen a lot. This movie plays out like a modern-day Romeo and Juliet. Andy Lau is a gangster who falls in love with a good-girl. This age-old formula is applied very well however, and is played out brilliantly. This film is by turns beautiful, violent, energetic, contemplative, and heart-breaking. The violence is visceral and unflinching, and the film is rooted strongly in reality. Andy Lau turns in his career-making performance and the female lead is excellent as well. I highly recommend this film to anyone who is looking for a well-made Hong Kong flick.

Its fine, the main lead is great as Andy Lau who made hundreds of Hong Kong films like As Tears Go By (1988) as with here is Jacklyn Chien-Lien Wu her first film which was before inspired Fame (1980) and after this one went on to become also a star. She mainly didn't make anything too wonderful but certainly was in Eat Drink Man Woman (1994). I'm not really in love with this film but it is not boring, it is just that the action of the triads has some nasty violence, of course, and then some rather silly romance. All the time there are splendid Hong Kong locations and gradually we get involved in the action and also the over the top romance .