Product Details

• Actors: Wen Jiang, Nina Huang Fan, Shi Liang, Xiaoning Liu, Jing Ning
• Directors: Chuan Lu
• Writers: Chuan Lu
• Producers: Wen Jiang, Biao Cao, Buting Yang, Dong-ming Shi, Gang Tong
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: Chinese (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Subtitles: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese
• Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
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• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: May 4, 2004
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6301481356
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #202,884 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Missing Gun" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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MISSING GUN - DVD Movie

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A thoughtful film, August 15, 2004

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Viewer from Guam (Mariana Islands) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Missing Gun (DVD)

The Missing Gun (Xun Quang) is a surprising film. At first it appears to be a comedy, but soon reveals itself to be much more.

Ma Shan (Jiang Wen) is a detective in the People's Republic of China who wakes up one day to find that his gun was stolen at his sister's wedding the night before. This is a very serious matter that threatens to end Ma's career - or worse - and bring shame upon his department. The movie follows Ma's efforts to find out who stole the gun, which is subsequently used in a murder. It also presents an accurate picture of life in China.

I couldn't help admire Ma's abilities as a very sharp detective, but it is his devotion to duty that left me thinking about this film long after it finished. There is a wonderful scene where Ma is chasing a criminal and, after arresting him, explains where his power to catch him comes from. But the film touched me most as a meditation on personal integrity, and what it means to honor that integrity.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not at all what you might expect..., February 26, 2006

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Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Missing Gun (DVD)

The Missing Gun aka Xun Qiang is one of those films that creeps in under the radar and surprises you. Arriving on DVD with no reputation and packaged as an action movie, it's really a rather good drama with more in common with The Bicycle Thieves than your average Hong Kong action movie (although thankfully the hero leaves his kid at home on his quest). In fact, it's not even that, but a Chinese drama about a small-town cop (the wonderfully hangdog Wen Jiang) who wakes after a drunken wedding reception to find his gun missing and no-one able to remember the previous night's events any better than he can. The poor small town China setting is intriguing, a mixture of mostly old with flashes of the new China - supermarkets, imported cars and Italian suits. Of course, this being a Chinese film, the latter are frowned upon as the fruits of corruption, but it's not an overt propaganda piece, more a character driven drama executed with an interesting but strangely appropriate visual style (the shot of a murder victim's hair spread out on the ground is hauntingly beautiful) and compassion. The final revelation feels a bit awkward (that pesky Asian cinema habit of having the killer become Irving the Explainer), but it even finds its way out of that with some imagination. Quietly impressive.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not a bad movie, but not too noteworthy either, January 2, 2012

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I wanted to like this movie, but I had some issues with it. The pacing was slower than I would have liked, and it seemed like too many people had a motive to take the gun except for the person who actually did take it. There were a lot of things that didn't make sense and unanswered questions. For instance the cop said that he was carrying his gun while at the wedding because there was an escaped convict, but then he got so drunk that he couldn't remember what had happened the next day. I also didn't believe that people would be put in jail one day and let loose the next without anything happening to clear their name. I don't want to ruin the ending for anyone, but it left a couple of questions unanswered. It wasn't a bad movie, it just wasn't that exciting either.