Sad state of Hong Kong Film Industry

When will the filmmakers of Hong Kong realise that they can never compete with the Hollywood film industry! I just watched DRAGON TIGER GATE and I was largely disappointed with the film. But in comparison with the other comic adapted Hong Kong films, this movie stands a little above STORM RIDERS or A MAN CALLED HERO. Somewhere in the mess, there was a story however cliched it was.

The opening of DTG copied blatantly the opening of the Hollywood comic adapted movies which has become cliched. Can't filmmakers understand that story content is still king!! Chen Kaige(THE PROMISE), Tsui Hark(ZU) completely lost themselves in the world of computer generated visual efx that the story took a backseat and I was completely turned off. Why can't they realise that visual efx within this region cannot be compared with the ones produced in Hollywood, Europe or even the Kiwi land. Visual efx should work only as a tool, nothing more!!

INFERNAL AFFAIRS trilogy was interesting because the movie not only revolved around the story but also the characters and their dynamics. A Stephen Chow trademark remains a Stephen Chow trademark. A lot of imitators have tried to xerox his style and method but to no avail. Producers should understand and strive for individual originality than copying others.

Another thing that I was annoyed with DTG is the blatant usage of product placement that was too obvious, that it interrupts the flow of the story.

My favourite part of the movie is the martial arts choreography, which I thought was fairly well done.(Only if the filmmaker refrain from overusing computer generated visual efx.) I enjoyed the 80's referenced martial arts choreography of SPL and Donnie Yen brought a certain freshness of the movements in DTG but the efx seem to hamper the efforts that were put into the choreography.

Please filmmakers of the world, come back to the story!