Sweet Alibis

Sweet Alibis
Traditional Chinese甜蜜殺機
Simplified Chinese甜蜜杀机
Directed byLien Yi-chi
StarringAlec Su
Ariel Lin
Matt Wu
Lei Hong
Lang Tsu-yun
Ken Lin
Chu Chih-ying
Austin Lin
Kao Meng-chieh
CinematographyRandy Che
Release date
  • 17 January 2014 (2014-01-17)
Running time
112 minutes
CountryTaiwan
LanguagesMandarin
Taiwanese

Sweet Alibis is a 2014 Taiwanese comedy film starring Alec Su as a cowardly veteran cop and Ariel Lin as an overzealous rookie. The film follows the pair who team up to solve crimes together in Kaohsiung.

Plot

Starting from a seemingly pointless case of a puppy's accidental death, from eating chocolate, the essentially incompatible pair unexpectedly digs up the clues to a series of mysterious deaths.

Cast

Theme song

  • "Lao Tian You Yan" (老天有眼) performed by Alec Su (originally sung by Hei-pao in the 1980s)

Reception

It was the number-one film in Taiwan box office for a week in January 2014,[1] but overall grossing was disappointing with only NT$ 20.6 million (roughly $0.6 million) despite generally positive reviews.[2] It was successful in the Chinese box office in March 2014, ranking only behind 2 Taiwanese films — You Are the Apple of My Eye (2011) and Black & White Episode I: The Dawn of Assault (2012) — in first-week grossing.[3] It grossed ¥36.6 million (roughly $6 million) in mainland China.[4]

Awards

Trivia

There are in-jokes in the film referencing characters from the TV series In Time with You (2011) starring Ariel Lin and Romance in the Rain (2001) starring Alec Su and Ruby Lin.

References

  1. ^ (in Chinese) 《甜蜜殺機》勇奪票房冠軍　林依晨喜感具幫夫運
  2. ^ (in Chinese) 《大稻埕》遭社會學者譙破億爛片
  3. ^ (in Chinese) 《甜蜜殺機》陸上映3天 票房破億
  4. ^ (in Chinese) 原音重現 開兩岸電影契機