在这部金国民片中,爱看李思捷公仔箱中扮鬼扮马，难免对他首部自编自导自演的《金国民》引颈以待。金国民，天才横溢却怀才不遇，是为电影圈无名小卒，乏人问津，但天生我才必有用，机缘巧合下碰到荷里活监制，一夜成名指日可待。成名先要试试镜，试镜就需要打功夫，唯有求教过气武指张师父，望他帮手排排「武」，还要抽点时间谈谈情，哄哄世上唯一能明白他的Annie。时间紧迫，师父又狮子开大口，誓闖荷里活的他面臨重重挑戰。是前程似錦，還是前程似「咁」？金國民又能否將自己點石成「金」，當上「國民」超新星呢？
─2008香港亚洲独立电影节 HKAIFF
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The title of this Hong Kong drama is an obvious take-off of Citizen Cane. Our Citizen King (Johnson Lee) is a down-and-out Chinese actor with the dream of make it in Hollywood because Hong Kong just doesn't get him. King meets a sleazy American producer who promises that if King can make an audition tape he will get him set up in Hollywood. King enlists martial arts legend Gordon Liu (Kill Bill) to help him create the performance of his lifetime. Part romance and part black comedy, Citizen King was shot in black and white and in English, which are highly atypical for Hong Kong movies. The filmmakers Johnson Lee and Ching Long pull together a mix bag of melodrama, black comedy, mocumentary and cinematic homage to an ironically compelling feature. Citizen King is truly a hyperbole of Hong Kong's identity crisis-a Chinese movie shot in English, and a good film about a bad actor. The romance between King and his biggest fan (Farini Chan) is particularly moving. Citizen King is undeniably a fascinating and unique item of Hong Kong cinema.
唯一一部沒有快進的電影。
