Moments of Love

Year:2005

Ron Ng and Race Wong
Director:Billy Chung Siu-Hung
Cast:Ron Ng Cheuk-Hei, Race Wong Yuen-Ling, Yan Ng Yat-Yin, Hins Cheung King-Hin, Steven Cheung Chi-Hung, Don Li Yat-Long, Deep Ng Ho-Hong, Natalie Tong Si-Wing, Macy Chan Mei-Si, Vivian Yeo , Wilfred Lau Ho-Lung, Liz Kong Hei-Man, Tommy Yuen Man-On
Description:
A
group of younger Hong Kong faces gets their big screen
shot in Moments of Love. The story of five
crisscrossing youth romances, Moments of Love
gets immediate cred for good use of its overcrowded
Mongkok location, plus a couple of bonus points for
the occasional telling moment. It also gets a quick
dismissal for an abundance of useless moments, annoying
storytelling devices, and sometimes uninteresting
acting. But hey, at least they tried.
TVB star Ron Ng leads
the cast as a marketing peon who engages in a fiery
professional/personal spat with colleague Race Wong.
Meanwhile, a high school student V begins
to pay too-close attention to her young teacher . Sassy waitress Yuki begins getting
mysterious text messages, and she thinks they're from
a cute guy who's been giving her the eye.
Sadly, she spends more time running into geeky guy
Ronald , who wears pronounced braces
and sings karaoke pretty damn well. Sing
discovers a suicide note, and looks for the writer
to placate his girlfriend Fong , but
his behavior starts to get a little loony. Finally,
loutish Doby has a nasty breakup with his
girlfriend Wiz , which involves him shouting
at her despicably. Regretting his outburst, he opens
a business where customers pay to express their angry,
and sometimes violent feelings towards him.
As youth romances go,
Moments of Love has its positives. The occasional
rumination on love and youth manages to work, especially
in light of the film's disjointed narrative. Some
of the actors are decent, if not noteworthy, and director
Billy Chung uses his Mongkok location exceptionally
well. Though the stories themselves sometimes lack
credibility, they do seem to take on more life when
set against the teeming masses on the Mongkok streets.
Unfortunately, the film also possesses its share of
missteps, including mistimed attempts at comedy, sometimes
unearned sentiment, and a performance from Deep Ng
that should have been reined in via riot police, or
at least a good straitjacket. Furthermore, the film
is far too cursory
to truly affect. There are some moments in Moments
of Love, but ultimately they're rather mild ones.