Streaming Online Red Numbers (2013)
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- Rate: (awaiting 5 votes) Your Rating: Saving vote... Deleting vote... /10 total (delete | history) Sorry, there was a problem MOVIEmeter: Up 9% in popularity this week. See why on IMDbPro. Director: Dominic Ow Writers: Alvin Soe Koh Teng Liang Contact:View company contact information for Red Numbers on IMDbPro.Release Date:22 February 2013 (Singapore) See more
- Genre: Comedy
- Filming Location: Singapore
- Budget: SGD 800,000 (estimated)
- Director: Dominic Ow
- Stars: Zhang Lu Bin, Edmund Chen, Dirk Ellis | See full cast and crew
- (in alphabetical order)
- Koh Teng Liang
- Alvin Soe
Plot: 'Red Numbers' revolves around a guy, who according to a fengshui master, only has three lucky minutes in his miserable life... See more » | »
Story: 'Red Numbers' revolves around a guy, who according to a fengshui master, only has three lucky minutes in his miserable life. His fortune is wrapped up with a greedy family whose grandfather holds the key to the winning combination in the 4D lottery. Written byKoh Teng Liang
Produced By:
- Gin Kai Chan known as executive producer
- Edmund Chen known as co-producer
- Justin Deimen known as associate producer
- Alvin Soe known as producer
- Zhang Lu Bin known as Xu Xiao Xu
- Edmund Chen known as Lolipop
- Dirk Ellis known as Chasing Man
- Huifang Hong known as No 3 Mummy
- Eunice Olsen known as No 8 Mummy
- Henry Thia known as Fei Zai
Production Companies:
- Project Peanut
- Silver Media Group (Co-Production)
- Supernova Media
Red Numbers (2013) Review by DICK STEEL from Singapore
Are Singapore movies becoming predictable, and is there an unwrittenrule that first time feature filmmakers ought to consider puttingGambling and a Chinese dialect (Teochew in this case) into their movieto appeal to the large Chinese-speaking heartlander base, and ourpenchant for betting? You can scroll through the list of Singaporefilms on the right panel, and tick off the movies that either hasGambling/4D as a theme, or feature it as a plot device, and the numberwould probably surprise. It's time to break away from this unnecessaryand unhealthy obsession, and proclaim - movies with such scenes andthemes, are B-O-R-I-N-G. And the truth is, they actually are.
Written and directed by first time feature filmmaker Dominic Ow, RedNumbers is that early local box office counter to Jack Neo's Ah Boys toMen 2 success this year, with that film being the crowning glory at thebox office, and this one more than likely to see empty halls. The castlist is fairly unimpressive even as co-producer Edmund Chen, a familiarface in television, got a starring role, and roped in some of hisstudio colleagues such as Hong Huifang, Chen Shucheng, Eunice Olsen andsome of those from yesteryear, even if you get the best acting talentavailable on this island, you'll not be able to bail the film out ofits insipid storyline.
Which may be why, like the mantra that's economically fashionable incountry, if you can't find locals willing to partake in any work, goforeign! The leading role in the film went to Zhang Lu Bin (credited asRubin), who stars as the world's most unluckiest person Xu Xiao Xu,booted out of his hairdressing job, and finding his luck turning forthe worst each passing minute. He chances upon geomancer and fengshuimaster known as Master Hui (a real life practitioner) who enlightens Xuthat the latter only has a 3 minute window in his entire life for goodfortune. And Master Hui also serves as consultant to the Gao family,whose patriarch Lao Gao (Chen Shucheng) had kicked the bucket, andreturns to the world courtesy of bad CG effects, to try and bless hiswretched family of his grand-daughter (Kanny Theng) and her no goodlive-in boyfriend (Sugie Phua), her bar girl mom (Hong Huifang), hervoyeur dad (Henry Heng), her aunt (He Jie) and her aunt's lover (LeeChau Min).
What transpires is an extremely laborious plot (if you can call it one)development involving Xu and the Gao family trying to avert themisfortunes, and death, that awaits them, while Edmund Chen's Lollipop,in what would be one of his worst roles ever, figures into the entiremix that tried to hoodwink the audience and pass itself off as amystery. And not forgetting the obsession of the characters to try andsecond guess what Lao Gao has in store for them as far as 4D numbersgo, which flashes across the screen at random intervals, encouragingyou to take note of them and go buy them later.
Spoken lines are awkward, and the non-actors cannot act even if theirlives depend on it, with Ow as director not being able to coerce anycredible performances. Master Hui, the real deal, looks and sounds justlike how he does on television during the Lunar New Year evecelebratory variety shows, and is obviously not an actor, with hisnamesake on screen being just a reader of lines, imparting fengshuitips that you may care about to take notes. Everyone else seemed out ofplace and unsure about what their characters stood for, with hardly anydevelopment, with the likes of Eunice Olsen as a bargirl, and JamesWong as yet another random pop up character, prone to exaggeration andover-acting.
Technically, the colors looked very saturated, and the narrative was sobad it wasn't even funny. Ow probably tried too hard in wanting toimpress with his first feature, and fell into the many pitfalls thatawait the eager. Between Ow and his editor, someone probably thought itwas a good idea for quick cuts each time Xu has to run from place toplace. It's charming for a while, but restraint is something not in thevocabulary. And the same goes for the necessity to pepper every otherscene with highlights of numbers, enlightening you that these digits inthe show mean something in real life, being 4D numbers that won thelottery at some point in time. Trivial? Yes. In-movie easter egg?Overdone.
And one thing to note about differing standards.Sex.Violence.FamilyValues got into issues with the censors forpurportedly making racist remarks in the film. Eventually, the decisionto ban it became a decision to mute over the offending statements(muting itself is bloody irritating, though effective in making JohnMcClane sound like a pussy). But why did Red Numbers manage to make aracist joke/remark, and got away with a PG-13 blessing? It boggles themind, and one can only reckon that the same complainant / censor didnot have the good fortune (or had!) to Streaming Red Numbers.
If there's only one consistent fengshui prediction for this, I'm sureMaster Hui would have seen this coming, that the film is going to be abox office dud, dead from the get go. For a film with commercialaspirations, it lacked mainstream sensibilities, and is harping on therehashed elements that audiences are probably already tired of (Oh, yetanother Singapore film, about gambling). It's time for local filmmakersto up the ante, because films like these that continue to get fundingand made, just limits the genres of films that can be made here, andgive Singapore films, on the whole, a bad name of being devoid ofcreativity and talent. Skip this at all costs, as it certainlyqualifies, albeit early, as one of the duds this year.
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