If you are easily moved by love movies, this one will catch you. The story of the young girl (Angelica Lee aka Princess D) getting in some way closer to Daniel Wu (the computer game designer) mixed with the background story of his father as a dancing teacher invites you to dream.Mixing three / four story lines into one movie can work and it can not. In this case I think it has worked. Others point out that it is mainly due to Angelica Lee, but I think that all story lines work well. If you are into Asian movies and like the feeling you get from those it is a good movie, giving you enough space to think along and still pointing you to the important things.The language is typical Hongkongnese: Chinese mixed with English words and adds the flavor of modern Asia to the movie. Neon lights, drugs, discos, for me it just feels right!--- SPOILER AHEAD --- Without saying too much I just think that at the ending you hope that the glimpse of a woman's face in a bus is the one you think it is.

With IMDb describing Princess D as a sci-fi movie, and offering a rating of (then) above 7, I thought I could allow myself to expect a good movie. And while I'll admit that it was Angelica Lee that attracted me to the movie (and she indeed looks stunning), the movie as a whole was something of a disappointment. It doesn't seem to take place in the future; it's about a game designer who's basing a computer game character on a real girl he becomes infatuated with.But it isn't a sci-fi movie. In fact, the whole computer game aspect grows thinner and thinner, as the movie focuses more and more on the miserable life situation of the girl, who deals drugs in order to pay off her brother's debt to a gangster. The characterization tends to be superficial, some key scenes seem to be entirely missing, and... it's just not a particularly good movie - in my opinion.But Angelica Lee *is* great to look at...5 out of 10.

The film opens with a cool CGI cartoon of a fly, and then we see the fly in the real world. We meet Joker, a video game designer. In a bar he meets Ling, a bartender with an attitude, and she saves him in a impressive Hong Kong-style fight scene in the alley. My expectations were high.Joker uses Ling as his inspiration for a video game character, but then the film ground to a halt for me. It became a love story, which would have been fine, except it seemed to move *very* slowly, with many details that seemed completely irrelevant. Granted, I was sleepy, but I started the film very interested and it lost me.Seen on 11/5/2002 at the 2002 Hawaii International Film Festival.

Daniel Wu plays a video game designer who overcomes a creative block up after a strange and wonderful rescue from near death by a punk bartender played by the wondrous Lee Sin Ji from a club. He finds in her inspiration for his next big game, and through their relationship they begin to learn to empower themselves through the pursuit of their respective dreams. Some wonderful CGI sequences that lead me to believe that Princes D would actually be a very cool, creepy and dreamlike adventure game. Lots of delicious visual storytelling, often the most powerful when saying the least verbally. And the supporting characters are wonderful, with interesting stories themselves that do an excellent job of underscoring the main plot. This is a really neat piece of work that I believe points to the potential of mainstream Hong Kong dramatic cinema when approached with integrity rather than looking for a quick cash in on the current big name (in other words, this is the opposite of Andy's Lau's awful recent flick "Wesley's Mysterious Files".