Entertainment October 6, 2026 at 10:15 AM

Mastermind review: Louis Koo plays detective in ludicrously bad Hong Kong mystery thriller

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1/5 stars A fine line separates a labyrinthine murder thriller from an infuriatingly fragmented mess. With Mastermind, emerging Hong Kong writer-director James Hung Ling-ching (The Seventh Lie) crosses it with reckless abandon, delivering a detective mystery with such irredeemably awful plotting…

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