Beast Stalker

Dante Lam directs this long, slow, grimly humorless Hong Kong crime drama of a hot-shot young police captain (Nicholas Tse) who drops out of the force after one of his cases ends in tragedy and then goes rogue to save the kidnapped daughter of a prosecuting attorney from a half-blind kidnapper/killer for hire (Nick Cheung). There are some effectively staged sequences, but there's nothing to distract the audience from these glaring gaps in rational thought. The characters are blank under their glib psychological profiles, and the procedural sequences drag the film down between the bursts of grim, grimy action. Includes featurettes and deleted scenes, all in Cantonese with English subtitles.