Heung Gong zai

"Aberdeen" ("Heung Gong Jai") is not your average Hong Kong movie. Why? Well, because it is neither martial arts, action nor silly romantic comedy. This movie is a drama of sorts that tells a story of various aspects of branches of the same family.

The storyline is slow paced and very little actually does happen throughout the entire movie, and I was hoping that the movie would pick up pace and get up into gear, but it just never happened.

While the storyline is weak, it should be said that the acting performances are quite good, especially by Eric Tsang and Louis Koo, whom both really carried the movie quite nicely.

I haven't seen Miriam Yeung in a movie for a long, long time, so it was a nice surprise to see her on the screen again.

"Aberdeen" is not really a movie that stands out in the Hong Kong cinema, and it is a rather mundane experience to say the least. It seemed that director Ho-Cheung Pang had set out to accomplish too many things at the same time with this storyline, and not really managing to chew the piece that was bitten off.