Line Walker: Bull Fight (2020)

Yet another Line Walker?!

I've only recently gotten back into TVB dramas these last few years and i got to admit, they do the whole "Police/Triad" concept really well. Line Walker 3 bought in characters from Line Walker 1 and Line Walker 2 (Prelude). This drama has such a great cast and of course, it's been a long time since we have all seen Raymond Lam back in the TVB scene.

There's so many storylines and plots in this drama which makes it complicated, but what it does give - is more backstory to what happened between the timeline of Line Walker 2 and Line Walker 1. You really grow to love some of these characters. However, the last few episodes feel rushed and so much happens that I'm still trying to process it.

Overall, if you enjoyed the first 2 dramas in the line walker series, I recommend watching the 3rd one. It's good just to see these characters come back together again!

(And yes, i'm still sad about Pakho not being able to be in this one..)

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Enough to keep you stringing along

I honestly was just happy to see Raymond Lam back as his UC character. My brain also actively forgotten what the storyline of Line Walker 2 because it was that unmemorable. The anticipation was to see how Kenneth Ma was going to be involved in the main character's lives with an identity and vengeance from The Prelude. Had to agree it was an innovative way to doing it. What I found to be hard to follow was the about a dozen different mini story arcs that gets drop here and there when a certain person/item or scene comes into play. It works like a flashback but it does so without much of any anticipation of it. Just like when Priscilla receives an anonymous package with UC log books, we are suddenly sent back in time relating to that UC's life. It's like I am watching halfway into a tv show and someone changes to a different program. I'm left wondering where we just left off and how this flashback is tied to the main storyline. It could have been executed much better than it was done here. It was a lot of "pause" the main drama, switch to a different channel and watch a mini series, then back to the main drama.

I never liked Priscilla's character in The Prelude and her death in Bull Fight was extremely unnecessary other than to take the viewers on a heartbreak roller coaster. When she was lying there after being shot trying to be a lure to help Ben Yuen be exonerated with murder, I thought that was the end of her. Maybe it should have been. I would have respected it better. Instead, writers decided that she should die in one of arguably TVB's most painful way to die- not by cancer or torture but to hear about massive multi organ failure and retching up blood for over half an episode. Even the worst characters just get a bullet to the head (Kenneth Ma!!) and that's the end of it. I fastforward just to see her draw her last breath because it was painful to wait it out.

The ending! I was gasping for air. Seeing Michael Tse on the end of the sniper scope was just too much for me. Then to see that Joseph Zeng wasn't really dead after all (I was wondering what the purpose was for having him play a character that lasted only 4 episodes but had a mysterious aura around him. I hope he does return for #4. Then the another shocker is to see the character - the UC from The Defected. People may recall a couple years ago, Ben Yuen played the main lead in The Defected- all about the corruption of high police officials- even the office of the Commissioner. The 2nd lead was the guy that played the UC- his character was very memorable. I recalled his character died in that series. But as Line Walker tells us, no one is truly did unless we see the final breath. Kenneth Ma is dead for sure. #4 would be very promising to unit Michael Tse (if he was to resume Laughing Gor) and the UC from The Defected to make #4 the ultimate collaboration of TVB's most memorable UC storylines. I cannot wait.

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