
The Locksmith
2023


177 votes
Veteran detective Cham works with rookie cop Will to hunt down the city's serial killer. The investigation leads them to a lair littered with dismembered female limbs, and an ex-con who killed Cham's wife and child years ago...
Director
Soi CheangWriters
Streaming availability for India
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Original Language
Cantonese
Budget
$16.0M
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Gritty, powerful, uncomfortable, brutal. These are just some of the adjectives I would use to describe this film. It was a bold move from the director to present the film in black and white, but just like Zhang Yimou did back in 2018 with the excellent film Shadow, it works in the movie’s favour. It has allowed him to play with the composition of the scenes, to hide clues in the frame and to mask the obvious CGI used throughout to the point where it blends in so perfectly you’d barely notice it. It also makes it a pleasantly uncomfortable film to watch. I know that sounds like a contradi…
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