Divergence

I was very surprised when looking for other opinions about this film on the internet after seeing it. I found almost nothing more than negative reviews!
I found this hard to believe and just have to say that "Divergence" is a really underrated movie.
"Divergence" is a Hong Kong action thriller with an actually very good emotional edge attached to it, which makes this movie definitely watch able.

The story follows cop Suen (Aaron Kwok) who fails to bring a key-witness safely to court. The witness gets murdered. The killer (played by asian superstar Daniel Wu), keeps a close eye on Suen. Meanwhile, Suen has problems dealing with his own past. His girlfriend has disappeared 10 years ago and has never been found since. When he sees a woman who resembles his girlfriend alot, his past keeps coming back to him, while killers, and unsolved mysteries are closing in on him.

"Divergence" has won 3 Hong Kong Film Awards (the Oscars of Asia), not 4 like the dvdcover says, back in 2005 and deserves every one of them. I was surprisingly touched by the film's emotional edge which made it a powerful watch.
First of all, Aaron Kwok won an award for best performance by an actor. He acts a very emotional part and does it very well. He is tough but has that everyman likability at the same time. Different opinions are flying around about his acting (with alot of "over-emotional acting" talk), but I found it an excellent performance.
Than there is Daniel Wu, now a familiar face in films, who plays the role of a hitkiller. Just like Kwok he plays his role good and knows what he's doing.

The film is stylishly filmed and the action is well captured on camera by director Benny Chan. There isn't very much action in the film, but still quite alot which is well filmed, exciting and energetic. A footchase down a Hong Kong highway in the middle of the city is magnificent. One of the Hong Kong film awards was therefor won for editing, which is indeed very good. The footchase down the Hong Kong street is, like another reviewer said before me, very well synchronized.
The last award was won for Cinematography and indeed, just like with the other awards, well deserved. The film has a good atmosphere in it thanks to the cinematography.
Another strong factor in the film is the music. Beautiful sweeping themes are at the emotional scenes while suspencefull music is there when it's needed. A nomination at the Hong Kong awards was for this music, but was not won.

Therefor I found "Divergence" a very good film from the Hong Kong cinema, and it deservers better than all these negative words about it. The film's final is for some people a bit unclear, but the film as a whole is an emotional gangster drama with some very nice scenes and moments, which is an absolute must see for Hong Kong cinema fans.
It is the emotional edge that does it.

this is an amazingly good movie patched and intertwined with a complicated die-hard tormenting romance, helpless detective works, betrayals, attorney turned killer, hitman tried to do some good, memory loss...aaron kwok proved himself a very talented actor, daniel wu was also very good, the weak actor and role in this movie, as usual, was ekin cheng, always with cardboard rigid acting, and ning gin, the actress who played the contract killing broker. signed her up for this role was a casting disaster, because she was totally out of place in this movie. 'divergence' was realized with a very nicely crafted screenplay, strong casting and very good directing. some parts in this movie were even poetically beautiful mixed with subtle and appropriate music score floating in and out timely. the car crash scene and street chasing scenes were both the best directed and synchronized action scenes i've ever seen. aaron kwok's performance was so good, he acted just like a cop obsessed and forever hurt by his sudden lost love, very convincing and very moving. this is a rarely good production out of hongkong, if you could be smart enough to compare this movie to other pretentious, overly being cool hongkong films.

First off this movie is not a solid thriller like Infernal Affairs it does not come even close to IA. This movie had to much plot with a very little running time. This film could have been good if it were 2 and a half hours so it had time to explain what was going on and some charectors could have been well developed. But with this movie being 100 minutes it lacks all of the those things it needed to be a good movie. The performances comes out weak except for Aaron Kwok The story was hard to follow most of the time and it had to many subplot within itself it loses focus on the main story. And the ending has a twist that was weak and very stupid. The hero was a whining idiot the antihero was looked more like the main villan and the villan revealed himself until five minute before the movie ends. but it was obvious from the start who it was so it was not as shocking as they were trying to make it. This was not the worst asian movie I have ever seen cause there are really bad ones out there but this was sure as hell was the least entertaining asian film of 2006 for me.

I enjoyed this movie, the way it follows the lives of four totally different men, it shows a truth of what direction you take in life and how it can have an effect on everyone around you. The Cop in the story at some points, well he gets on my nerves. Daniel Wu was great!

Wasnt ready for english subtitles that were totaly off time and made no sense and almost no action.