"To and Ka-fai's widescreen lensing is both elegant and sharp, its distorted angles and flaring white lights generating a sense of unease that complements Bun's instability and Chi-Wai's fractured self." - Nick Schager

Based around the simple concept of a bizarre, unconventional police detective with the mysterious abillity to see peoples hidden personas, Mad Detective is anything but formulaic and right from the start disuades any notion that this is just another flashy HK crime film. What follows is a highly ingenious, highly inventive and above all, highly entertaining piece of cinema. If you're after a crime film that's as inventive and intriguing as it is enjoyable, you can't go wrong with Mad Detective.

MoC release looked spectacular. Pick and runs with the genre tropes all the while reflecting them back at the nature of cinema. Makes no effort to construct a separation between filmed fantasy and filmed reality. Final scene is also majestically put together.

The film looks great, and has some interesting aspects, but ultimately relies a little heavily on the twist.

Yeah, this was really good. Ching Wan Lau is excellent, as is the style.

Starts out very promising but keeps knocking down everything it sets up and throwing in red herrings until you stop trying to figure it out or caring. Easy to say this is a masterpiece not appreciated by the masses, but if a movie isn't enjoyable enough the first time with the interpretations that the filmmakers know full well the majority of the audience is going to have, there won't be any second viewing to look at it in whatever complex or esoteric light the filmmakers were envisioning.

Lau Ching-Wan burns down the screen, the twists keep coming and the style is wholly original and great. Best movie to come out of HK in ages...

Original, energetic and stylish.

Ching Wan Lau is fairly incredible as the lead, blurring the line between funny and disturbing. The highlight for me is when he solves a murder by tumbling down a flight of stairs in a suitcase. I also like that this film doesn't have the "OMG THIS is what everything has led up to!" ending that most films like this do.

For once the multiple personality cliché is used in a refreshing way. Having the main character be an unpredictable weirdo makes it a bit hard to delve into his motivations and decision making process, but it makes for interesting viewing. Decent crime movie.

My expectations of this crazy story proving out have been met.