A Disappointing Continuation

I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Love Battlefield is not a good movie (I don't understand why its score is so high). It could have been a very good film but that's not the case. Although the premise is interesting, its development is a big failure. When a story is forced in some unnatural way that includes resources out of logic and common sense, that story becomes misleading and unbelievable. And this is the main problem of Love Battlefield: placing its target (shake profoundly the audience) before the requirements of the story itself, what could have been a stimulating mixture of thriller and romantic drama is only a presumptuous (and often dishonest) action HK movie disguised as a "quality drama" just for satisfying the likings and expectations of continental China.Let's see one example of what I mean: Yui has been kidnapped by a group of thugs and his girlfriend has been a witness. She goes to the police office to report the fact. One of the detectives is a common friend of her and Yui, but he doesn't listen to her because in the same morning somebody has killed half dozen of cops and the police department is very busy trying to find the killers (both cases are related but it is unknown). Some hours later the police receives a photo showing Yui with the thugs, also in the picture is very clear that Yui is in difficult circumstances. But the detective (and common friend, let's not forget it) doesn't evaluate the photo as a confirmation of Yui's girlfriend report. Instead of that, he begins to think of Yui as the main suspect of the crimes.The script is plentiful of inconsistencies like that, only for leading the events to desperate situations and leaving the audiences in shock. Sorry but I don't buy it: the main character (Yui) has a lot of chances to escape from his captors; the bad guys don't stop killing people and making noise in the city, driving here and there in a stolen car, but they don't face a single police control in the streets... Is this Hong Kong or the Far West?The final result is a hysterical drama mixed with a mediocre action movie (yes, mediocre, don't expect anything impressive except, maybe, the scene of the car running over one of the thugs). And from any point of view, a very disappointing film.I give it 4 out of 10 because the actors (especially Eason Chan, Niki Chow and Candy Cheung) are good and the story has its potential. But I can't find more values for giving it a better score, sorry (and I am a big fan of Asian movies).

Director P. S. Cheang is certainly one of the best new talents in Hong Kong!In "Love Battlefield" (Ai zuozhan), Cheang skillfully adapted the requirement of the mainland China market and the strength of Hong Kong movies and turned the "Love Battlefield" into a wonderful crossover romantic story and thriller.In the first half an hour, Yui (Eason Chan) and Ching (Niki Chow) had showed us just another ordinary lover relationship of city kidults. They love, they fight and they hate because of minor things.Then, their car was stolen by robbers and Yui was kidnapped. That put their life upside down.The robber couple Wah (Wang zhiwen) and his wife (Qin hailu) is a sharp contrast to the city couple. They have to struggle to survive. After this incident, Yui and Ching learned what to be treasured.P.S. Cheang's old films are all ghost stories. In his films, the ghosts are always irrational and innocent people suffers. This violates the tradition of Hong Kong ghosts stories, which used to offer a 'reason' for the thing. (Let's compare it with "The Eye" & "Three") In "Love Battlefield", those robbers just behaved like P.S. Cheang's old ghosts.For the people who love thrillers genre or romance genre, they might find it isn't their cup of tea. But for people who are looking for something new. It certainly the movie that had to see. It brings out the best of the 2 genres.Niki Chow's performance has a breakthrough! She gave her best to the audience. Under the direction of Cheang, she is not a doll anymore, but someone that can act. Eason Chan's performance is beyond his average too. Graduated from mainland art schools, mainland Chinese actors Wang Zhiwen and Qin hailu's acting is something different from Hong Kong's style.And last but not the least, the writing credit is a mistake. Joe Ma didn't write this story. He's the producer, and it's K. Y. Szeto who wrote this wonderful story.