[KFCC] Metade Fumac'a Review

Story: Mountain Leopard has been living in Brazil for the last 30 years, he left Hong Kong in exile after a fight with his bitter rival Nine Dragons. With a gun and a bag full of money Mountain Leopard returns to Hong Kong to finish the fight with his rival. Not long after arriving Mountain Leopard meets a young triad named smoky, Mountain Leopard hires him to help him find and kill Nine Dragons. Mountain Leopard is also looking for the woman that he loves and lost 30 years ago.

Review: Take note that Metade Fumaka is a drama orientated movie in a triad genre. The focus of this movie is mostly on the story and the characters and is not really on action. You can expect a good story with well developed characters, the flow of the movie is smooth and you won't really find any boring moments. The movie is generally on the slower drama pace due to the lack of any real action or comedy.

You have a couple really well developed characters in this movie, in fact the characters are a very important part of this movie. As mentioned above character interaction and development play a very important role in this movie. Along with the main story line there are underlying themes that the characters will play out. Then there is the development of the characters, especially with Mountain Leopard character (Eric Tsang) where you see a very well defined development from the initial rise of the character and to the fall. Smoky (Nicholas Tse) as well has an interesting development during the course of the movie. Basically a lot of attention is put on the relation between these characters. An excellent performance in general from the actors Tsang and Tse.

Action wise Metade Fumaka is a little quiet, it is not completely devoid of action but it movie is not an action movie its about telling a story. The entertainment factor in this movie is the strong characters and meaningful story line. If you are more orientated towards the action type of movies you will find this one less interesting but if you enjoy a good drama type movie then this should be interesting.

The subtitles are great on the DVD version, you will have a fair amount of text to read but for the most part it is easy to follow. We had some divided opinions on this movie here at KFC, some of us liked it while others found it less interesting. The reason for that is the action factor, we generally focus more on the action orientated films and this one was a little different. It is mainly a drama movie and in its own sense it was high action but that is in story and other factors. The overall opinion of this movie is that it was quite good but it is something that some people will simply find boring. So final note on the film, if you don't like Drama avoid this movie.