2013 · action · crime · comedy
Blind Detective
Directed by Johnnie To2h 9m2013
A brilliant detective is forced into early retirement after losing eyesight. Making ends meet by solving cold cases for reward money, he teams up with a rookie lady inspector to solve a case from her personal past.
Our read: Blind Detective (2013) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive action · crime · comedy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, breathless, measured action / crime, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- kinetic
- twisty
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