Jik zin 2012

Neil Genzlinger, New York Times: "The Viral Factor" wants to be both an action movie and a soap opera. But the merging of the two genres by Dante Lam, a director based in Hong Kong, is clumsy, and so is the film. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: Dante Lam is John Woo via Michael Bay; he doesn't want to win you over, he wants to beat you up and make you crazy. And for all its silliness, "The Viral Factor" does just that. Read more

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: It takes a special kind of action director to use chaotic, human-filled public spaces for high-energy foot chases, auto stunts and gun battles yet never once get under the skin with a sense of genuine danger. Read more

Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail: Tediously overwrought and drably made, with scenes punctuated by synthesized drums out of eighties American TV drama. Read more

Maggie Lee, Variety: Gunfights and explosions are audaciously played out in real urban locations swarming with people and vehicles, all unfolding with high tension, without losing sight of continuity. Read more

Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice: It's an overloaded, overwrought, profligate production inclined to hysteria and, in cumulative effect, something like being pelted with scenes until buried alive... Read more