Liu has a fine eye for visuals and a penchant for toying with his audience through black comedy and temporal shifts; but these tricks, which kept "Green Hat" afloat for most of the time, run out of gas halfway here. Story takes place in flashback as Mainlander Wang Yao (Liao Fan) leaves a Hong Kong prison and visits the relatives of Lichuan (newcomer Monica), whom he fell for and made part of his hotel-room sex scams blackmailing horny males. On-off, love-hate games between the two become tiresome after the hour mark and Liu's look-at-me direction serves no dramatic purpose. Previous versions (Peter Sehr's 2001 "Love the Hard Way," set in Gotham; a 1989 Mainland version by Xia Gang) were equally unconvincing.

-- Derek Elley

相当毒辣的一段评论，不过看来他更不喜欢的是故事的本身和王朔的风格．因为他竟然说之前那两版电影都一样没有说服力，不过我猜他可能连看都没有看完就走了。