One Last Dance

My Intro Crap

Well, if you are not getting used to it with my crap you can skip this paragraph. I used to talk crap in my introduction. Recently, I was checking my Number of Hit daily, what surprise me is, I never expect there are 23.1 for Average Daily Hits Since Start. That’s why, I put the visit side bar to check how many people actually visit my blog. Well I don’t know it’s accurate or not but this is kind of more accurate than the Number of Hit. Its show yesterday I got 22 visitors. I always think, all these while whoever visits my blog it’s someone that I know. Well, if someone that I don’t know who are you, I would like to say hi to all of you.

K, back to the topic, “One Last Dance” is one of my favorite movie and my best movie of the Singapore Production in 2009. I watched this movie accidentally in Astro Celestial Channel. I am a fan of Francis Ng, “One Last Dance” is probably the best performance of Francis Ng ever. As you hardly see Francis Ng has a serious and outstanding character in his portfolio excluding “Infernal Affair 2”. Well, I agree with the HK entertainment news, that they always say Francis Ng is one of the best HK actors ever.

“One Last Dance” is one of the Singapore Production directed by Max Makowski. Max Makowski is Brazilian-born director and ever directed several Hollywood movies. His upcoming movie is “Voltron”, one of the famous animate in 70’s in Japan and will be release somewhere on June 2010. Click here is the portfolio of Max Makowski. Using US$ 2 million budget making the movie of “One Last Dance” is worth that what they are paying, at least they cast one of the best HK actors Francis Ng. Although the box-office are not doing well in Singapore which is $S 459, 000 gross but they entry several competition, there are;

• Official Selection – 2006 Sundance Film Festival – World Competition
• Cannes World Cinema Showcase. First Asian Country to be selected

According to the Studio Mediacorp Raintree, the Writer and Director of the movie Max Makowski said, “This is truly a great honor. I hope it will help turn more attention towards Singapore films. This has been a real blossoming year for the Singapore film industry. I am happy that One Last Dance is now contributing to this growth.”

What surprise me a lot in this “One Last Dance” movie?

The shooting and the editing are done in Singapore but the whole movie is speaking in Cantonese. Well, the result is good enough, I like their acting, and of course I am not only talking about Francis Ng is good in acting, I mean the rest of the actors and actresses did well in their part. The camera style is amazing and the editing style makes me stick on the chair until the end of the movie. You won’t understand if you don’t finish the movie and the story keep make you to think, what’s next? The story tells piece by piece, that’s why the poster slogan written “Every Piece Tells A Different Story”. As what I understand the style of editing, they try to tell you there are two different way of direction to tell the story, FABULOUS. Some of the scenes there are so artistic, God I wish I had that sense of art.

Joseph Quek is the first time acted in the movie as a role of “Ko”, one of the close friend of Francis Ng as “T”. His performance is good, I like the part when “T” uses his gun pointing at him and asking for explanation. Ko (Joseph Quek) when he explains the reason why, the acting is fantastic, no overacting at that scene. Well for the newcomer his acting skill is good enough, well maybe his scenes involve a lot of Francis Ng that push him beyond his limit.

Well, I am not going to tell you what’s the story about nor any review here because this is how you remind mystery of the movie. It’s a nice movie that you seldom see those Asian directors would do this type of action movie. I guess it’s kinda hard to find the DVD, because it’s not a famous movie throughout Asian but it’s a quality movie that we should appreciate. I always have a thought, that commercial success movie it’s what people like but people don’t actually appreciate or respect much. However if there’s a movie like “One Last Stand”, which is not doing well in the box-office but their work would be more appreciate and respect by the audiences who like the film. I would like to say it’s hard to make a commercial film with unique style to make audiences to accept the movie. Maybe not in Asian countries but US has a large wide audiences, which they would accept the unique style of movie and they would appreciate more than Asian people.


"One Last Dance" Trailer


ORIGINAL TITLE One Last Dance
YEAR 2006
RUNNING TIME 76 min.
COUNTRY [Singapore]
DIRECTOR Max Makowski
SCREENWRITER Max Makowski
COMPOSER John Swihart
CINEMATOGRAPHER Max Makowski, Yiu-Fai Lai, Charlie Lam, Nick Loh
CAST Francis Ng, Harvey Keitel, Lung Ti, Vivian Hsu, Joseph Quek
STUDIO/PRODUCER Mediacorp Raintree Pictures / Media Development Authority of Singapore / The Film Bund / Ming Productions
GENRE Action


"One Last Dance" Theme Song is nice, click here and here


Sources of Link
One Last Dance related Article
Wikipedia of Singapore film
Studio Mediacorp Raintree produce One Last Dance
Lovehkfilm.com Review
Beyond Asia Philia Review of "One Last Dance"
Anut Shell Review of "One Last Dance"
Detail from Studio Mediacorp Raintree of "One Last Dance"


Sources of Link
Max Makowski related Article
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