That Demon Within

Name: That Demon Within
Genre: Action, Crime
Released: April 18, 2014
Duration: 111 min
Rating: 51

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China Lion Film Distribution | Release Date: April 18, 2014 | Not Rated

Summary: A dutiful cop (Daniel Wu), guilt-ridden over saving the life of a gang leader (Nick Cheung), becomes obsessed with bringing down the crime syndicate of the man he saved.

Director: Dante Lam

Genre(s): Action, Crime

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 111 min

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Nicolas Rapold

Apr 17, 2014

Pulp done with passion can be its own reward, as the veteran Hong Kong filmmaker Dante Lam shows with his feverish cop thriller That Demon Within. Read full review

Deborah Young

Apr 16, 2014

Lam’s filmmaking team deliver thrills on schedule with solid effects, crisp shooting and fast cutting. Read full review

Maggie Lee

Apr 16, 2014

Lam’s darkest work to date, one where violence is not just graphic but ugly, and Hong Kong symbolically comes to resemble a charnel house. Read full review

Simon Abrams

Apr 16, 2014

Rock-dumb Hong Kong thriller That Demon Within is exhausting, and only sometimes batshit enough to be engaging. Read full review

Martin Tsai

Apr 17, 2014

Not unlike most of its Hollywood counterparts, though, this Hong Kong import can't resist the urge to dumb down a fascinating premise for the sake of mass consumption. Read full review

Rob Humanick

Apr 17, 2014

It rarely feels like anything more than an effort to pander to the kind of audiences that enjoy Quentin Tarantino's films for all the wrong reasons. Read full review

Ethan Gilsdorf

Apr 17, 2014

There’s a half-realized, half-haunting Hitchcockian psychodrama buried somewhere within That Demon Within. What’s on the surface plays more like Wong and Lam simply forgot to take their meds. Read full review

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