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#NONTON FILM GOODBYE MR.COOL EKIN CHEUNG MOVIE#As it turned out though, that which I think has by far the least attractivecharacter that she has portrayed turned out to be an unfortunate choiceof thirteenth Karen Mok movie for me to view as well as an altogether sub-parpiece of work that could put some people off all Triad dramas rather thanjust this one.Sometimes you have to say goodbye before you can say hello. Mok is that, in addition to being an interesting film presence, sheseems to have been far better at picking projects than many of her equallytalented contemporaries (like, say, Wu Chien-Lien or Michelle Reis). COOL was directed by JingleMa (whose “Tokyo Raiders” and “Summer Holiday” rank among my least favoriteHong Kong movies), I nursed some hope that I would enjoy viewing this offeringbecause of it having Karen Mok - as well as a few other actors and actresseswhose work I like (notably Lam Suet) - in its cast. Worst of all, Macau Hung - who also sometimes get referredto as Helen in the English subtitles - is too forcibly made out to bea horribly irresponsible mother, terribly immature individual and all roundnot particularly understandably problematic personality. Another seems to changepersonalities from scene to scene and really only be there to complicatematters for Cool (Six year old Siu Lung’s young teacher, Ms. One of them(Macau Hung’s lieutenant, Jo Jo, who is played by Stephanie Che) is givena criminally small amount of screen time. All these faults pale however with the very negative characterization anddepiction of the three main females in this offering. #NONTON FILM GOODBYE MR.COOL EKIN CHEUNG PLUS#Also,while the film’s first and last fights are quite good (by Triad drama standards),the ones in the middle that are shown as dance style flashback sequencesare frankly quite awful plus pretty ridiculous as well as laughably weird. Consequently,so much of its story and course is thoroughly predictable. COOL does not offer up anything innovative or new. Put succinctly: Plot- and character-wise,GOODBYE MR. Althoughhe doesn’t seem to be that bad a man, the way the movie was going, it seemedinevitable that he would end up going against Cool and therein lies amajor problem with this work. The second, a native Mandarin speaker referred to as Prince (who is portrayedby Huang Pin Yuan, AKA Wong Ban Yuen on the HKMDB), is the Triad boss whoCool’s (former) woman - Macau Hung (who comes in the form of Karen Mok)is now a major underworld wheeler-dealer in her own right - shacked upwith when GOODBYE MR. ![]() So you just know that he’sgoing to find some opportunity to create trouble for Ekin Cheng’s character. The first, an obviously despicable character known as Volcano (who is essayedby Jackie Lui), is someone who would lose such men as Long Hair and thosewho may feel greater loyalty to Long Hair than him, should Cool changehis mind and go back to his old ways. Two of them continueto have particular cause to feel threatened by and jealous of him. As might be expected, the more senior membersof the gangster society are alternately suspicious and scornful of Cool’sdecision to wave “good bye” to their world. Hong - who is played by the ever watchable Lam Suet - is himself a formerTriad, and has remained on speaking terms with a Triad “tai lo” who heand Cool used to hang out with: The now inappropriately nicknamedLong Hair (Chatman To’s character used to have long tresses but now hasa close cropped hair cut), who actually is among the substantial numberof at least middle ranking Triads who would like Cool to not only rejointhe Triads but also be their boss. Cool’s bid to stay straight has the support ofa friend and benefactor of sorts (who did such as see to Cool’s father’sfuneral arrangements when he was serving jail time in Thailand). Cool”or “Cool Dragon” after his release from prison and return to Hong Kongjust seems to be seriously as well as modestly intent on being not muchmore than an honest busboy (in his friend Hong’s Kowloon Cafe) and goodfather to a six year old boy whose mother is his ex-girlfriend (but stillmay not be his biological son). ![]() More specifically,the individual that various people continue to respectfully call “Mr. #NONTON FILM GOODBYE MR.COOL EKIN CHEUNG FREE#For example, while Ekin Cheng’s character in the other films was someonewho was seen rising up the Triad ranks, the one that he plays in this YeungSin Ling and Susan Chan co-scripted effort starts off in a high positionbut soon is reduced to being a physically lame man and inmate in a Thaiprison (as a result of a botched assault attempt on a powerful Thai figure),and spends most of the film trying to make a new life for himself thatis free of Triad ties, obligations and liabilities. COOL is onewhich is as Triad infested as that of the Y&D works, the movies reallydo not have more than a few superficial similarities (if that at all). ![]()
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