Well Go USA announced this past week that the Hong
Kong-based writing and directing team of Daniel Chan, Steve Woo, Lau Kin Ping
and Hui Shu Ning’s stylish thriller, Cross, will be heading exclusively
to DVD on June 23.
Lee Leung (Simon Yam — Iceman, IP Man, Man
of Tai Chi, The Thieves, etc.) is either an angel of mercy or a twisted
killing machine — a serial killer, if you will — who has taken on, as his
mission in life, the task of killing people who wish to end their lives through
suicide. You have to admit that that is
a pretty odd career undertaking.
He’s a devout Catholic and his wife did the unforgivable and
committed suicide and that, apparently, pushed him over the edge. We learn all of this in a flashback
narrative as the film opens with our “angel of mercy” turning himself into the
police and confessing — in great detail — to his “work” as sort of the gate
keeper to heaven.
Since his victims,
oops, make that clients, didn’t commit suicide they will, by his reasoning, be
allowed into heaven.
Talk about twisted, that’s Lee Leung in spades, but it is
not as it seems as our would-be hero may have been played.
Presented in Cantonese with English subtitles.
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