Kent Cheng

Genres collide! Actually, in The Prosecutor, they don’t. Two distinct species of movie live separate lives in this odd courtroom drama with martial arts action bolted on. Strangely, it works, because Donnie Yen, who stars and directs, has decided to keep them as separate entities – he gives us a bit of this and then a bit of that and doesn’t try too hard to make the two genres cohabit. Even so, those gear changes are awesomely noisy. The story is based on the real case of Ma Ka-kin, a Hong Kong kid who took delivery of a parcel of cocaine at his house, not knowing what it was, and wound up – … Read more