NYAFF XX Review: Ricky Ko’s TIME, A Quaint, Ebullient Killers’ Fable
Playing like a vingette out of the 1970s, the intro to Ricky Ko’s directorial debut, Time, dives right into the 60s as we meet younger versions of our killer-for-hire trio, Chau, Fung and driver, Chung. A robust music score accompanies and enlivening opening action scene that falls short of mimicking classic 70s cinema, but still does its own thing in invoking a proper flashback to help pave the way for our characters, including Chau as he whips out his legendary karambit, corners an underworld boss and has his way with him. Fast forward to present day and the young, spritely killers Chau and Fung once were, are very much far from their heyday glory: Chau (Patrick Tse) is forced to contend with modern technology when he’s fired from the restaurant he worked as a noodle chef for not being expedient enough; Fung is now a grandmother working as a cabaret […]