Revenge: A Love Story (HK) - Unpredictable, Gory, Good Entry

Synopsis: 
The movie is divided into few segments which are all related. 1st segment shows that a killer are killing 2  pregnant woman and taking out their still-born child, murdering a cop with some innovative. The killer's identity  is instantly shown in this 1st segment leading up to his arrest. Then, the killer's pregnant wife tries to save him by diverting the police attention by stabbing herself and taking out her own unborn baby. But what is the motive behind such grisly killing ? 2nd segment shows then shows the courtship between the killer, Kit and her sweetheart, Wing who is taken care by her grandmother. After her grandmother died, Wing is send to an orphanage home but sneaks out one night to be with Kit. During that time, she encounter a cop, Du Ge who thought that she was a prostitute and tries to rape her. However, Kit manage to save her in time by beating the cop unconscious. Both then decided to make a police report at the station but unfortunately, Du Ge is the police boss in the station and together with his fellow cops, decided to take revenge on Kit by severely beating him and falsely accusing him of assaulting a police officer, thus sentence to 7 months jail. Wing is then raped in the station by Du Ge and 2 other cops. After coming out from prison, the now pregnant Wing lives together with Kit while Kit plotted revenge on the cops for her misfortune. The next segment of the movie focus again on when Kit has been caught & interrogate for the murders earlier. Due to Wing intervention, Kit is released from police custody and tries to rescue Wing from the hospital. During the escape, the interrogation officers inform their ex-boss, Du Ge and hatch a plan to sabotage Kit and kill him. Du Ge manage to shoot Kit and injured Wing in the legs. The last segment of the movie shows after many years passed, Du Ge became a pastor, repent on his previous misdeed & currently a principal in an all-boys orphan school in a remote island. After recovering from injury, Kit manage to track down Du Ge and killed him, and himself get killed by the orphans for taking revenge for their principal.   
Review:
Initially i was not interested in this movie due to its movie cover and not so interesting title cover. After reading some article on this, i manage to find a copy of this movie and watch it. I was hooked from the beginning due to its tight screenplay and straight to the point storyline. The music and the overall look of the film is expensive and giving an impression of a big budget movie. The murder is also realistic and gory too, so some of the scenes are not for the faint of heart. But a majority of the film is on a darker theme with revenge feeling playing around the movie. According to the director, the reason for the film is to make viewers understand that revenge is not good. But after watching this movie, i do not feel that the message has been delivered thoroughly. In fact, i felt that it prompt people to take revenge ala an eye for an eye.Overall, it was a good entry from upcoming actor, Juno Mak and HK movies.

Verdict: 

I give this movie a 3 star out of 5.