AFFF log

First fighting to stay alive, then fighting to sacrifice oneself in the name of love
Links: AFFF / imdb

My Manderin is not up to standard, so having decent English subtitles is a prerequisite to understand the film. A shame then that the quality of these subtitles was not too good at times. I am not referring to the occasional typo, but to abbreviated sentences and losing meaning that was present on-screen.

Funny to see that they seem to love story-within-a-story constructs, as for the use of flashbacks and memories.

It's a bit of a letdown that a lot of the scenes are comical to us Westerners instead of genuinely dramatic, with heavy dialogue and actions that I associate more with Greek tragedies than your run of the mill wire-fu films.

Rating: 6