Sons of the Neon Night is a hyper-stylized crime saga about the heir of this pharmaceutical empire, Moreton Li (Takeshi Kaneshiro), who is pushing the company to go clean and get out of the drug trade while his brother Maddox (Alex To) continues to operate in the shadows. I'm not of the position that a film needs to have a likable protagonist to have empathetic characters, but there's no one to truly root for in Sons of the Neon Night because we don't sit with any of these characters long enough to really feel for them. One scene in particular, when we first meet Moreton in the opening moments of the film, feels outside of reality and, when he walks through a doorway, it's almost as if he's entering the world of the film, steeling himself for the bloodshed to come.
Author: Graeme Guttmann
Published at: 2025-05-17 19:36:25
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