The Boundary (2014) 'Femme Fatale' Mystery Thriller
4809DVD
Original Chinese
Title: QUAN CHENG TONG QI [Crossing the Boundary Line]
director: Wang
Tao
starring Liu Ye
· Vincent
Zhao · Choo
Ja Hyun (Xuan Qiu-ci)
· Na Zha
This
is a remarkable femme fatale psychological thriller about a cop
(Liu Ye) who’s never been able to recover from the trauma of his
wife mysteriously disappearing ten years before. Then when a girlfriend
of a wealthy businessman is brutally murdered, the woman in the surveillance
camera appears to be very familiar...
When
the film starts boiling down to the more essential components, it gathers
suspense, tension and some genuine surprises. It's also fun to watch
as the movie toys with Mainland China's [archaic] censorship laws dealing
with the supernatural. The cast is wonderful, performances from the
two female leads - Choo Ja Hyun and Na Zhao - are mesmerizing. And it's
somehow refreshing to see Vincent Zhao playing the villain here after
so many heroic roles in his early martial arts movies (BLADE,
WU
DANG, ONCE
UPON A TIME IN CHINA IV, GREEN
SNAKE, et al).
A Chinese/Mandarin film
with good Chinese and English subtitles, fullscreen format, (uncut 102
minutes),
DVD encoded for ALL REGIONS NTSC FORMAT; extras include original Chinese
theatrical trailer.
Graphic
Violence/Drugs/Sexual Tension
for Mature Audiences
This
is a remarkable femme fatale psychological thriller about a cop
(Liu Ye) who’s never been able to recover from the trauma of his
wife mysteriously disappearing ten years before. Then when a girlfriend
of a wealthy businessman is brutally murdered, the woman in the surveillance
camera appears to be very familiar...
