Lack of good storyline.

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

I give it a 10.It's a movie full of soul.It starts pretty funny, gets into serious talking.But the ending and the characters make everything possible.It's about life, it's about priorities, it's about the human soul.If the soul is too damaged it will never survive happier times, it will crumble under it's own weight.Gives perspective on life....most people won't understand or appreciate it. The actors are playing a serious and simple act, they don't have fancy words or eccentric habits. The scenes are pretty simple and focus on the characters. I would not miss this movie if i like to see the unseen. The main characters are like children, they are in a pure form of existence, they are mortals, they are human.

I can't even begin to describe the sicky feeling I have after watching this movie. It should be worth starting by saying I wasn't even able to watch the whole movie in one go. I really don't know what kind of masochistic thought made me watch the rest of it in the first place.Sometimes I wish we could use negative ratings. This film is an insult to anyone interested in martial arts movies. Apart from the fact that most fighting scenes were visibly sped up, the last half hour doesn't even have any kung fu. The choreography was good and clearly the actors knew what they were doing. If they would have ditched the fast-forwarding and added more fighting scenes it would have been a lot better.And this brings me to the story... *sigh* This "movie" tried so hard to be a movie it inexorably turned into an epic fail. The characters have no depth and give no reason for what they are doing. They don't seem to be driven by any moral principles but they have philosophical dialog that is seemingly unrelated to the romantic-cheesy-dramatic plot.Fatal Contact is nothing more than a fatal blow to anyone's intellect.I never thought I'd say it, but now I wanna watch a Hollywood movie.

I am (of course) a huge fan of Jacky Wu Jing. He has been "the new Jet Li" to me since his earliest movies. What a shame that he had such a long hiatus from movie-making, and what a thrill that's he's back in a lot of new movies these last couple of years! Hope his career will really take off now!I really liked Fatal Contact. Note that, early in the movie, Kong (Wu) even mentions his intention to be the new Jet Li! This movie is sort of about what might have happened to Jet Li if he'd been led astray and had become an underground prize fighter instead of an action movie star.Hong Kong plot logic is not always easy to grasp, but I thought this movie did everything right. I think the ending was as it had to be. Tin had been using Kong, and she killed herself because she hated herself for betraying him so. Kong then goes on a gangster killing spree and gets himself shot by the police - exactly the kind of thing that would realistically happen. And not only is it realistic, it's also a moral lesson: don't get involved with organized crime, 'cos it'll surely lead to no good. In terms of poetic justice, getting shot was Kong's punishment for getting involved in illegal brawling in the first place. His big mistake was taking up with Tin, whose true nature he was too naive to see clearly. His sifu must have taught him skill, but not wisdom... :-/Anyway, very cool movie with very cool fight scenes and a good story; much better than what we usually see in kung fu movies. I rate Fatal Contact 8 out of 10.While we're waiting for Wu's next film (Legendary Assassin), let me express the hope that he will start doing period pieces again (like Tai-Chi Boxer and Drunken Monkey). I don't know why all the recent kung fu movies have to take place in the modern-day world. It's just not the same. The movies set in the past are much more atmospheric, and kung fu makes a hell of a lot more sense in a world without guns.

Who suffers more - knowingly manipulative girl or over-naive guy who has fallen in love with her ?That's a question worth asking when you watch this film and see the film's ending. no that wasn't a spoiler. It was a teaser.And if you've fallen for the movies marketing firstly let me tell you despite its martial arts,FATAL CONTACT/HAK-KUEN is in fact a DRAMA-ACTION-LOVESTORY. despite it's hero falling in love with the girl and taught by kung fu teacher,karate kid - like story.if you're about to purchase the dragon dynasty DVD, don't fall for the dumb cover where someone rightly asked 'why does Wu Jing look like Sammo hung'. if you're aping for mind-blowing action, you're in for a treat but here the action serves the story and its moral issues. It takes a moral mind to appreciate the message in this film and a cold heart not to be torn by its sadness.Wu jing,providing the action plays Kong , a Peking opera performer who is chosen by an underground fight boss who is looking for new fighters.Miki yeung plays his deceptive girlfriend, providing the films drama, Ronald Cheng provides light-relief comedy but which also provides a moving story and all the characters have their motivations explained throughout. I'll let you read the other reviews that gush about how Wu jing is the new jet Li etc etc but what I'm addressing here is the film, and everyone is in fine acting form here. Wu Jing is particularly convincing in his role as naive fighter who goes nuts in the ring but would do anything for his love and the rest are equally competent. cinematography great, directing spot on.HOWEVER Ignore the fact that you are a watching an action film and watch it because you want to be moved by a beautiful story of tragic love. And the moral message about materialism? Well, this is a bold statement for a HK film to make considering its ratrace mentality and its so beautifully executed. Wu Jing deserves stardom after this film and hopefully will choose more scripts like this rather than flimsy INFERNAL AFFAIRS wannabe-crap like SHA PO LANG or BOYBAND vehicles like INVISIBLE TARGET because he has achieved something that all the other kung fu stars haven't achieved, hes proved to take lead role in an EMOTIONALLY MOVING story. Not even Bruce Lee managed that one, except through his death, never mind Jackie and the others,well maybe in HEART OF THE DRAGON...And the final shot of the film where the two are talking,at first was cheesy but after watching second time,it was perfect.My fave film of 2007 by a long shot.