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The Mermaid 2016
In order to save her people from being killed by a dangerous project of Xuan, Shan, a young beautiful mermaids has sent to kill him, but she falls in love with him instead, so he does his best to stop the reclamation for her sake, but things come worse, when an evil organisation hijacks Shan, so Xuan struggles against saving her.
9 June 1961, Hong Kong
1943, Hong Kong
15 February 1950, Saigon, Vietnam [now Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam]
6 November 1990, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
30 July 1979, Keelung, Taiwan
16 August 1976, Hong Kong
26 June 1984, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China
8 August 1986, Shandong Province, China
November 11, 2016
It's funny, it's frenetic, it's filled with over-the-top violence and it's occasionally just plain twisted.
July 21, 2016
Chow cares mostly about Liu and Shan's love story - how their spiritual lives transcend their class differences. Yet, Chow balances romantic concerns with the sociological message. Most American films today...work backwards.
February 23, 2016
Like an ecological Lust, Caution, this contempo fairy tale about a mermaid who falls for the evil developer she's been sent to seduce and assassinate is strikingly relevant to China
July 05, 2016
It offers a visual reprieve from the cumbersomely mechanized aesthetic of so much contemporary fantasy.
December 05, 2016
Lives in a place of friendly absurdity.
July 11, 2016
Demonstrates Chow's innate understanding of the physics of humor better than anything he's made since perhaps 2001's Shaolin Soccer.
February 26, 2016
In The Mermaid, Chow never forgets that the camera is the funniest tool at his disposal, and the only one that speaks in a language that everyone can understand.
August 03, 2016
Chow habitués will be primed for hyperbolic acting, ludicrous wirework, ugly CGI and outlandish action sequences. Rest assured, those points will be satisfied.
February 22, 2016
Crass and macabre, yet big-hearted, it makes a wonderfully adult bedtime story.
February 26, 2016
I had a really good time.
February 26, 2016
You've already seen most of what Chow and his seven(!) co-screenwriters have crafted, and you've usually seen it with greater coherence and more impressive CGI.
February 23, 2016
Chow and his army of writers (seriously, it took nine people to write this) get terrific support from a strong cast of regulars and newcomers who really sell the story, cheesy special effects aside.

