After so many stoical, staunchly confident films from Johnnie To, it's always refreshing to see one of his collaborations with fellow Milkyway Image director/producer Wai Ka-fai...

Full Review | Nov 17, 2017

An inventive oddball pic that's diverting and borders on the ridiculous but never becomes uninteresting or completely loses its way.

Full Review | Original Score: B | May 9, 2010

Expect an inferior American remake within five years.

Full Review | Sep 26, 2008

Cleverly scripted, brilliantly acted and masterfully edited, Mad Detective explores the very human capacity to lose one's moral centre in a crisis.

Full Review | Aug 9, 2008

A stylishly funky Hong Kong thriller from cult director Johnnie To and co-writer/codirector Wai Ka Fai.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 8, 2008

More comical than compelling, but what do you expect of a chopsocky revolving around a head case of a hero begging to be buried alive in order to channel his psychic powers?

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 21, 2008

Mad Detective doesn't always make sense, and you cannot always tell what is real and what is imaginary, but viewers will be having too much zonked-out fun to care.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 18, 2008

If the insanely inventive and entertaining Mad Detective weren't so weird -- and in Cantonese -- hordes of action geeks would be lining the block to see it.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 18, 2008

A freewheeling narrative that twists around its central themes with manic intensity.

Full Review | Jul 18, 2008

too cluttered to be engrossing or even entertaining

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 17, 2008

Fleeting confusion and bizarre literalization aside, Mad Detective is an effective mystery story, with an oddball hero -- like TV's Monk, but far crazier -- and some moments of visceral violence that raise the stakes.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jul 17, 2008

It may make no sense to throw logic out the window, but that's exactly what makes Detective such an unhinged blast.

Full Review | Jul 16, 2008

Every moment in Mad Detective seems engineered for maximum oddity; it almost becomes overwhelming...Yet the movie feels adventuresome, too, a new bridge to Asia(TM)s soulful ghost canon. It(TM)s a metaphysical mystery masquerading as a doodle.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/6 | Jul 16, 2008

Even if you lose track of who's shooting whom and why during the abstract climactic face-off, the clever last shot shows you're not alone.

Full Review | Jul 16, 2008

Director Johnny To's previous flicks are slicker affairs, but there's still plenty here to please the fans.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 15, 2008

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 15, 2008

A part of me is starting to wonder what all the fuss over To is really about.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 27, 2008

Interminable and pointless virtually from start to finish...

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 27, 2007

The prolific Johnny To and his occasional collaborator Wai Ka Fai here put a new twist on the standard police yarn.

Full Review | Sep 29, 2007

Another very, very solid crime drama from Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai.

Full Review | Sep 15, 2007