The Blue Mansion

It's been an extremely long pause between Forever Fever (retitiled That's The Way I Like It in the USA) and his latest film The Blue Mansion, some 11 years where he had too many other projects to be listed that were accomplished between these two films, but it was a wait well worth it. Just ask the Japanese fans, who were equally thrilled that they could savour his latest offering just after its world premiere at the Pusan International Film Festival, I've always felt that Forever Fever, which also starred Adrian Pang, was ahead of its time in terms of how a Singapore mass appeal film could be made, without relying on cheap gimmicks, but instead possessed a strong story and an all round excellent delivery from its ensemble cast.

A movie has to be either exceptionally good or bad to elicit from me such strong reactions that I would have to off-load them online. The Blue Mansion falls under the latter category, and I would be remiss not to warn my fellow movie-goers, given the surprising dearth of negative reviews.

This is an excellent movie that I would highly recommend to anyone. At last, an Asian movie that is not a Kong fu flick nor a feel good Bollywood soufflé!

I got to be honest, half way through this movie, I had half a heart to pick up my bag and leave the cinema, even to the extent of not feeling guilty for abandoning my friends to explore more exciting grounds. I had decided to watch this movie as it was a local movie and my friends were daring to watch something quite different from chick flicks and action- packed movies.