#Sleeping dogs review movie
The delivery of the narrative will be familiar to anyone who has ever shunned the dubbed version of a Donnie Yen movie to watch it in its purity but it is helped along by a large and diverse cast of very respectable actors. You can almost smell the fish sauce and fried noodles. It has the gritty, steamy, sweat-stained underbelly of a city that plays such a prominent role in letting the genre come alive and it rests the plot – just believable enough – amidst that living backdrop.
But Sleeping Dogs isn’t an emulation of Hong Kong life, it’s a recreation of Hong Kong action cinema.įrom the diversity of its cast to the visual styling of its characters, Sleeping Dogs is often indiscernible from the familiar styles and tropes of Hong Kong action cinema. I can’t personally attest whether or not it encapsulates the reality of Hong Kong in its recreations of bustling markets, winding mountain passes and a towering, glistening financial district. What Sleeping Dogs does with panache is capture an atmosphere. The involvement of the police in our protagonist’s story provides an extra element of danger and allows the plot to take a few twists and deliver its emotional payoff in a way which, although largely unoriginal, is well written and impactful.
Sleeping Dogs doesn’t push your rise to power too far though – you’ll stay generally within your neighbourhood and you’ll work within the ancient traditions of the organisation, rather than rapidly overcoming and dominating them, as you might in other, similar games. It’s a reasonably generic story of a conflicted protagonist earning the trust of crime bosses further and further along the ladder.
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