Have a Nice Day

"It's like a John Woo gangster movie that's been boiled down to the bones, matched well by the slinky, brazen electropop of the Shanghai Restoration Project."

"It's an elegantly and wittily drawn piece of work, the design being clear, simple, sometimes almost two-dimensional, foregrounding droll and telling detail..."

"Leisurely and deliberate, intelligent and casually cruel..."

"The stylistic quirks that define the bitterly funny Chinese animated neo-noir... are thrillingly original."

"Have a Nice Day has the rough contours of an early Quentin Tarantino film with the particulars of a more arty, meditative mood piece."

"You may have seen some of the worst that humanity has to offer, but you've seen it through the fresh, distinct and clarifying vision of a gifted new artist."

"Like in any good genre yarn, there are a lot of unexpected twists..."

"The problem... is the thin, meandering storyline and the slow pace."

"Animation allows for greater freedom to play with the perception of time and space, and one of the film's great joys is simply looking at it."

"A conventional tale of bungled crime given a fresh lick of primary-coloured paint."

"A stunning achievement... Nobody is making films quite like Liu Jian."