One Last Dance (2005)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.1/10   

Director:

Max Makowski

Guionista:

Max Makowski (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

11 enero 2007 (Singapore)

Género:

Acción | Comedia | Romance | Crimen

Plot:

An assassin is hired to kill the men responsible for kidnapping an important man's son. With every death, the killer gets closer to the last kidnapper's name... his own. |

Plot Keywords:

Mobster | Policeman | Mafia | Black Humor | Singapore

Premios:

1 win & 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

The only movie I HAD to see at Sundance 2006

Reparto

Francis Ng	...	T
Lung Ti	...	Captain
Vivian Hsu	...	Mae
Joseph Quek	...	Ko
Harvey Keitel	...	Terrtano
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Boo	...	Farting Dog
Guo Hua Chen	...	Seargent
Tianwen Chen	...	Pui
Daphne Chia	...	Ballerina IV
Taylor Chia	...	Ballerina II
Paerin Choa	...	Bartender
Gordan Choy	...	Guard I
Salina Chung	...	Gu
Brendon Fernandez	...	Muscleman
Fang Rong Foo	...	Child III
Edric Hsu	...	Cop
Thomas Huang	...	Guard II
Nelson Hui	...	Child I
Evan Jin	...	MRT Security Guard
Ah Ne Koh	...	Flower Lady
Tiang Choon Koh	...	Cigarette Vendor
Sherry Kuhara	...	Blonde Asian Woman
Dalton Lau	...	Red
Valerie Lee	...	Ballerina III
Hossan Leong	...	Treesan
Esther Lim	...	Ballerina VI
Natacia Lim	...	Child V
Shaun Lim	...	Child IV
Thomas Lim	...	Richard (as Wee Hong Thomas)
Nicole Low	...	Ballerina V
Sunny Pang	...	Kai Wing
Kee Chin Poon	...	Security Guard
Xi Quan	...	Mr. Sa
Ricky Sim	...	Nelson
Darius Tan	...	Pei
Reinald Tan	...	Child VI
Alan Tay	...	Man I
Kim Hock Tay	...	Jo
Fraser Tiong	...	Child II
Beth Toh	...	Ballerina I
Cookie Wong	...	Ballet Teacher
Henry Wong	...	Cook III
Keng Chee Wong	...	Cook II
Lawrence Wong	...	Man II
Raymond Wong	...	Asian Elvis
Kai Shing Wu	...	Wong
Steve Yap	...	Arthur
Yann Yann Yeo	...	Wife
Ben Yeung	...	Poi
Raymond Yuen	...	Cook I
Chia Zee	...	Model
Wenxiang Zhang	...	Johnathan
Chong Qing Zhou	...	Foresan
Zzen	...	Rookie Cop

También conocida como:

El baile de la muerte (Spain: Castilian title) [es]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for brief strong language.

País:

Singapore

Idioma:

Inglés | Mandarin | Cantonés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Clasificación:

Singapore:NC-16 | UK:15 | Germany:16 | USA:PG-13

Locaciones de Filmación:

Singapore

Compañía:

The Film Bund

Trivialidades:

There are references throughout the movie to Makowski's first film, The Pigeon Egg Strategy (1998).

Citas:

Captain: As a cop all I have to do is live by the rules of the law. What's right and what's wrong is all I need to know, and that's much easier than trying to figure out what's good and what's bad.

Banda de Sonido:

Broken Orange

The only movie I HAD to see at Sundance 2006

This was really the only movie at Sundance 2006 that I absolutely HAD to see. Many (American) audience members simply did not understand the humor in the more dramatic parts (very characteristic of Korean-style dramas) which simply is not seen much in American movies. Note: this movie is not Korean, but I draw from Korean movies as a reference.

T, an experienced hit-man (Francis Ng) is forced to work with a group of young bumbling gangsters. T is more or less a "strong silent" honorable man (the irony being that he kills for a living) who is contracted to kill via names written in lai si packets (little red packets - commonly associated with gifts given during Chinese New Year). You, as a viewer, piece together the past and the present regarding T, the woman he has a crush on (Vivian Hsu), the idiotic gangsters T works with, an old detective T plays chess with (who is working on the some cases involving dead gangsters), and the rest of the gangster underground. Ultimately, T must protect the woman he loves, retain his honor as a man and fulfill his responsibilities as a professional hit-man.

I am not big into HK/Singaporean movies, but my experience watching Korean dramas/comedies prepared me to understand much of the humor when it seemed to glaze over much of the rest of the American audience. I personally thought some moments were hysterical. The movie is more or less a crime-drama (I guess) but from my experience, Asian dramas don't like to restrain themselves to only one genre. I personally think that Max Makowski (writer/director) managed to minimize explanation of some parts, which gave the film a more adult/mature/lifelike quality (i.e. what was in the suitcase?).

I don't think I could recommend a similar movie (few have managed to put together a quality script with rich characters), but the garbled time-line is similar to Memento (or Pulp Fiction for you main-streamers) and the main character is vaguely like Old Boy. I can't wait for One Last Dance to make it to DVD because it is already starting to fade from my memory and I do believe that this is one of my top 10 movies.