Godspeed (2016)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2016
	Director: Mong-Hong Chung
	Actors: Michael Hui, Na Dao
	Country: RC
	Genre: Polar
	Conditions of visioning: 22.04.2017, Teatro Nuovo, FEFF2017, Min Nan with English subtitles
Synopsis: No Dow (Na Dow) is a drug mule working for gangster Bao (Leon Dai). One day he takes the battered taxi owned by Xu (Hui).
Review: With Michael Hui, I expected a hilarious comedy as Chicken and duck talk discovered during the FEFF2011, but it is not at all a comedy. Even if the character of Xu becomes immediately sympathetic due to his desparation and bad luck, the movie hesitates between genres, but do not mix them really as it does not go fully in any of the touched genres, Comedy, Polar, Horror with one scene of extreme brutality. This way it looks like Hollywood movies on Mexican drug cartels with a slight touch of humour. The technical quality from Taiwan for light, picture is given but the story is quite boring. Even if I have to say that some scenes are very good (for instance the taxi driver Xu convincing No Dow for the drive, the gangster dialogue on the plastic cover on the sofa, the extreme brutal scene), there is no link in between and with me as a viewer neither.
Rating: 3 /10