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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9786301481359
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 6301481356
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: May 04, 2004
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 92285
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
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A small-town cop wakes up one morning after a wild night of celebration to discover that his gun - a rare state-issued firearm loaded with three bullets - is missing. While he attempts to retrace his steps from the previous night his ex-girlfriend turns up dead...and the bullet appears to be from his gun! Now in order to clear his name and convince the authorities that he's not the killer he must race against time to find the gun before the other two bullets find their next victims. An international cast of exciting and sexy stars go full force in THE MISSING GUN - a cool stylish action thriller about love power and one man's attempt to honor the delicate and explosive balance between the two.System Requirements:Run Time: 90 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: FOREIGN/LATIN Rating: PG-13 UPC: 043396007291 Manufacturer No: 00729
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Rating:  - Stylistically ambitious, but ultimately tedious
Jiang Wen, the celebrated Chinese actor, spends a lot of time furrowing his brow and looking pretty blank in this movie. The credit sequence, suggestive of the extraordinary opening of "Chungking Express", is all about madly sped-up traveling shots--but nothing in what follows is speedy. The rather boneheaded detective stumbles from point A to B to A to C, without much reason or compulsion. The tone alternates between HK absurdity and the heaviness of "characterization scenes" meant to tell us something about a rather unlikable character. The best thing about the tedious movie, by far, is the location. The old town of Qingyan , called Yunao in the movie, is quite located close to the provincial capital of Guizhou province, Guiyang, which accounts for the quite odd accents in the movie.
Rating:  - One of the best films ever made.....
This is the first major film presented by the genius Lu Chuan. Mountain Patrol (Kekexili) is the second masterpiece of his. Like his second film, Lu Chuan has the ability to bring real, Dickens-like characters to life in a modern world of plastic people. This brings a breath of fresh air to Western viewers who can now barely conceive of serious, in-depth, long-term relationships between people.
I was asked recently if these films were in English or subtitled. Having watched them an endless number of times, I was not able to respond. That is how transparent these tales are; how engaging and masterful in their suspension of disbelief. See this film.
Rating: - Not at all what you might expect...
The Missing Gun aka Xun Qiang is one of those films that creeps in under the radar and surprises you. Arriving on DVD with no reputation and packaged as an action movie, it's really a rather good drama with more in common with The Bicycle Thieves than your average Hong Kong action movie (although thankfully the hero leaves his kid at home on his quest). In fact, it's not even that, but a Chinese drama about a small-town cop (the wonderfully hangdog Wen Jiang) who wakes after a drunken wedding reception to find his gun missing and no-one able to remember the previous night's events any better than he can. The poor small town China setting is intriguing, a mixture of mostly old with flashes of the new China - supermarkets, imported cars and Italian suits. Of course, this being a Chinese film, the latter are frowned upon as the fruits of corruption, but it's not an overt propaganda piece, more a character driven drama executed with an interesting but strangely appropriate visual style (the shot of a murder victim's hair spread out on the ground is hauntingly beautiful) and compassion. The final revelation feels a bit awkward (that pesky Asian cinema habit of having the killer become Irving the Explainer), but it even finds its way out of that with some imagination. Quietly impressive.
Rating: - A thoughtful film
The Missing Gun (Xun Quang) is a surprising film. At first it appears to be a comedy, but soon reveals itself to be much more.
Ma Shan (Jiang Wen) is a detective in the People's Republic of China who wakes up one day to find that his gun was stolen at his sister's wedding the night before. This is a very serious matter that threatens to end Ma's career - or worse - and bring shame upon his department. The movie follows Ma's efforts to find out who stole the gun, which is subsequently used in a murder. It also presents an accurate picture of life in China.
I couldn't help admire Ma's abilities as a very sharp detective, but it is his devotion to duty that left me thinking about this film long after it finished. There is a wonderful scene where Ma is chasing a criminal and, after arresting him, explains where his power to catch him comes from. But the film touched me most as a meditation on personal integrity, and what it means to honor that integrity.
Rating: - Not a bad effort
The storyline is simple enough. The main character, Ma is a respected policeman in a rural town in China. He woke up after having too much to drink the night before from his brother's wedding. As he readied himself to work, he realised that his gun was missing. For those of us who were accustomed to international news regarding human rights issue in China, about the police & military being gun totters, you would be surprised to know that gun is strictly forbidden in China & to lose it is a serious offence. That's when the movie starts to warm up, with Ma's frantic search for his gun with three bullets remaining. He requires to do it in the nick of time. His supervisor says it well that for an amateur, that means three potential loss of lives. For a professional, that would mean six potential loss of lives! Ma endeavours to retrace his steps the night before & naturally, there are many potential suspects. The matter gets worse when his girlfriend from the past was killed by his own gun & that, he's listed as a potential suspect. Therefore, not only he needs to solve the crime as soon as possible but that he needs to prove his innocence as well. I wouldn't term this movie a gut-wrenching, white knuckle, guess-till-the-last-minute-who-did-it kind of thriller movie but a bit of everything. The movie can be hillarious at times and ocassionally, oddball-ish depending upon how you see it. It's assuring that this movie is not two-dimensional but character driven as well. Ma ... Read More
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