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The Midnight After

2014 [CN]

Comedy / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 26% · 3 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 26% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.5/10 10 1847 1.8K

parallel world political satire

Plot summary

On a night just like any other, a minibus full of passengers drives through a tunnel and arrives in another dimension; the eclectic group of passengers seek refuge in a deserted cafe and make a horrific discovery.

Director

Fruit Chan Photo
Fruit Chan

Top cast

Simon Yam Photo
Simon Yam as Fat
Tien You Chui Photo
Tien You Chui as Shun
You-Nam Wong Photo
You-Nam Wong as Yau Tsi-chi
Suet Lam Photo
Suet Lam as Driver
720p.BLU
1.08 GB
1280*544
Chinese 2.0
NR
Subtitles cn  
24 fps
2 hr 0 min
Seeds 10

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by draciron 6 / 10

An odd movie with potential

This is along the lines of classic disaster suspense movies. A bus full of people discover they are the only ones left in the world. There are a few scenes that'll make you bend over with laughter. Some scenes that you just go "yeah right". Some of the dialog is forced and corny, some of it interesting. The acting however never really carries over. A remake with better acting and script might be a really interesting movie. I give it a 6 just because of some of the scenes are worth watching just for those scenes and the general idea of the movie even if it never really gets there, is a good one. The movie was probably inspired by stories and movies like The Langoliers, Vanishing on 7th st, and so on. Same basic concept. Everyone is gone except them and the attempt to solve the mystery.
Reviewed by alice-loweecey 6 / 10

Interesting BUT

Reviewed by j-penkair 4 / 10

Midnight After Drunk

I found this ambivalent film most annoying. If I were from Hong Kong, would I have gotten any more messages than I did as a foreigner? The first blow to this film is that the director and screenwriter do not know how to translate some serialized web stories into a coherent film. Without a coherent story and theme, no believability is established. Disbelief is not suspended, and exposed throughout. If a message is to be delivered, they have lost their audience right after the first 30 minutes. The audience simply gives up caring. Characters, supposed to be rich and various, do not matter to them, even with so many background stories laid down. The second blow is a real bad mix of suspense and humour. I feel like watching an unstable storyteller who can't keep his or her pace. One minute there is a hope, then another minute, dashed. The third point is an absolutely unnecessary length of over two hours. Too long of a half-cooked film turns the audience against it. Dialogue and sub-stories should have been made concise, and helped the flow of the storytelling. I have a feeling that director Fruit Chan must have written or re-written the script as he went along. Otherwise it would not look like a film made by a drunk. Hong Kong films are usually with certain standards. Their low-graded films are usually not so low. But this film by Fruit Chan is a few notches lower than the usual. Not recommended.
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