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Black Coal, Thin Ice

6.4 / 10

106 minutes

2014-06-11

Mandarin

CN

Actors :

Liao Fan, Gwei Lun-Mei, Wang Xuebing, Wang Jingchun, Yu Ailei, Ni Jingyang

Description

Two former cops start investigating the series of murders that tanked their careers when the killings begin again.

Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

4/1/2024, 4:48:02 PM

OK, so yes - this is a very slow burn a times with far too many establishing and shots of decaying urban industrialisation, but when the action does actually focus on the story it's not a bad crime drama at all. We start with an arm sticking out of a pile of coal. The cops arrive and "Zhang" (Fan Liao) is soon on the case. He can only identify the corpse, though, and unimpressed his bosses ensure ...