A Cool Fish

Name: A Cool Fish
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: November 16, 2018
Duration: 109 min
Cast: Binlong Pan, Enxi Deng, Gang Deng, Hai Lin, Jianbin Chen

2018

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Emperor Motion Pictures | Release Date: November 16, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Binlong Pan, Enxi Deng, Gang Deng, Hai Lin, Jianbin Chen, Kung-Wei Lu, Ma Yinyin, Suxi Ren, Xiang Fan, Yi Cheng, Yu Zhang

Summary: Cop-turned-security guard Ma faces the ultimate challenge when his boss mysteriously disappears and his paralyzed sister makes a morbid deal with the armed bandits who abduct her.

Director: Xiaozhi Rao

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 109 min

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Robert Abele

Nov 15, 2018

Director Xiaozhi Rao’s facility with behavioral extremes that disguise the hardships of life in modern China is a scattershot mix of the Tarantino-esque and melodramatic, with bursting pop songs and visual tricks filling in any perceived gaps in logic or attention. Read full review

Elizabeth Kerr

Nov 29, 2018

For all its slapsticky action and heightened reality (the subtitles could use a quick review as well), Cool Fish marries often uncomfortable, dead-serious drama to its hijinks, and it doesn’t always work. Read full review

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kman5473

Nov 26, 2018

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This film feels like those 90's British, multi-character crime films like "Snatch", but is able to thoroughly distance itself and really make it its own thing. Easily the best contemporary Chinese film I have yet seen, I definitely think this film works on many levels. The acting, the writing, and the different themes being played out are done with precision and are equally entertaining. Spoilers from here on out! You have been warned. As with almost all new Chinese movies I have seen recently, the third act of the film is where everything sort of falls apart. The gangster/mob boss that is fought at the beginning and the end of the film was never built up enough as the primary antagonist throughout the plot for it to make sense that he should be confronted in the end. Furthermore, it makes pretty much no sense how he is defeated with thousands (literally) of people showing up to fight he and his gang. It was not clear that they were high school students, nor was it clear why the high school students were the ones that "had" to do the fighting. The incompetence of the police throughout does add to the humor and some of the tension, but some of it is a little too much of a "gimme" for my taste. The conflict between Jianbin Chen's character and his daughter really never took shape. We see that there is conflict between them because he cannot afford to pay her tuition and she is humiliated to some degree by that, but it's a bit superficial for her to be that upset about it. There was no moment of the daughter fully realizing how much of a mistake it was that she doesn't love/trust/depend upon/appreciate her father.… Expand

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