Review | G Storm movie review: Louis Koo in fifth and final instalment of David Lam’s consistently underwhelming anti-corruption action series
- Louis Koo again reprises his role as a senior Hong Kong anti-corruption investigator in this slackly scripted film padded with action sequences to entertain
- Frankly, who cares if Hong Kong filmmakers can no longer make crime thrillers because of changed public sentiment if they are going to be as shoddy as G Storm is?
2/5 stars
Louis Koo Tin-lok again reprises his role as William Luk, the principal investigator of Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) who has got into more deadly shoot-outs than most soldiers have in a war.
“Think you’re 007?”, his police buddy Lau Po-keung (Julian Cheung Chi-lam) says at one point regarding Luk’s drastic departure from his desk job – and this quip might work as a gag if it hadn’t arrived four movies too late.
Little makes sense in G Storm. Suffice to say that a human trafficking syndicate has enlisted the service of a foreign terrorist group and bribed a few officials in the customs, immigration and marine departments in Hong Kong to facilitate their operations.
The story builds towards an absurdly inefficient assassination attempt on “the chief justice of Southeast Asia” (Jessica Hsuan) because she is intent on freezing the bad guys’ accounts.