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Bookmark this pageDrink Drank Drunk (2005)
Director: Derek Yee
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From Time Out London
East Asia’s seemingly unstoppable celluloid domination has seen work across the board mop up critically and financially over here. Now, if this startlingly slight rom-com is anything to go by, the generic barrel is being scraped for anything that’s left. From the first frame it’s clear I do not belong to the target demographic for this televisual fluff, but then it’s hard to decipher who exactly does; the playing in this Day-Glo film by numbers is so unengaging and surrounded by such trivialities. Siu-Man (Miriam Yeung) sells beer but doesn’t trust men who are drunk until freewheeling stranger, chef and boozer Michel (Daniel Wu) shows up. They start a restaurant business as friends; loving follows the loans; they quarrel, they split, they get back together. No surprises then in this frothy fable of entrepreneurial success and relational triumph over some odds. In the UK, this could have a tiny life on DVD, but for more reliable entertainment it might be preferable to take the title as the model for an evening on the town.Author: GE
Time Out London Issue 1848: January 18-25 2006
Cast & crew
Director: Derek Yee
Producer: Henry Fong
Cast: Daniel Wu, Miriam Yeung, Alex Fong, Vincent Kok full cast
Rated: 12A
Duration: 101 mins
UK Release: Jan 20 2006
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