After a while the overpacked plot begins to feel like an afternoon meeting that won't end.

For his first official foray into the genre, To brings his usual knack for cutting movement and stunningly composing figures against space to a world of pure stylization.

Johnnie To and Sylvia Chang's stage-to-screen musical is a dazzling entertainment set against the backdrop of the 2008 financial crisis.

That rare case of a director being great so many times that when his latest film is merely very good it feels like a disappointment.