As for Gabe Ng's Li. His swaggering gangster character is a caricature that seems to carry the traits of, well, gangster characters from HONG KONG films. Featuring cliches like dyed hair, immaculately dressed with Nicholas Tse-like mannerisms, I see more a guy playing a gangster based on Hong Kong films than actually believing that he's really a gangster (or a con man, or a pimp etc. which he's supposed to be in the film). He is just as badly-written as my cookie-cutter artist characters from my discarded KL RHYTHM short film project, which I really discarded because of my inability to write the characters well enough.