*SPOILER WARNING*
Perhaps this Hong Kong mystery thriller belongs to a greater series, you'll wonder, as an entire team of crime-busters, headed by a shabby Columbo sort, investigate and solve the case of a musician's death without so much as a personality or a name or other distinuguishing feature among them ("Was there an earlier episode?" you'll wonder, and certainly the film has the production values and calibre of acting of a hastily churned out episode of a tv crime series) but the other problems with this mystery thriller is that the mystery is unpleasant, centred on a gross, overacted abusive father-daughter relationship, and obvious - anyone who has read Keigo Higashino will quickly recognise what the mysterious X is that holds all the dreary elements together.
★★☆☆☆
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