SINGLE MANDARIN
Title: THE GREAT HYPNOTIZED
Genre: Drama
Release: 29 April 2014
Stars:
Xu Zheng as Xu Ruining
Karen Mok as Ren Xiaoyan
Hu Jing
Lü Zhong
Wang Yaoqing
Synopsis:
A brooding psycho-mystery which pits a confident hypnotherapist against a beautiful patient who claims she can “see dead people,” “The Great Hypnotist” reconfirms Taiwanese helmer Leste Chen as an accomplished stylist capable of dressing up B-movie material in a classy package. However, despite lush visuals, a melodic rhythm and a pair of screen-chewing lead perfs, the film is still hamstrung by Ren Peng’s screenplay, which not only blatantly steals from “The Sixth Sense” but extinguishes all suspense via an inane twist. Even so, local Chinese auds and Asian genre fans may respond to marketing hype exaggerating the film’s mind-bending elements.
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