From director Yang Qing (One Night at the Supermarket) comes Chongqing Hot Pot, the official opening night film at the Hong Kong International Film Festival. When three friends open a hot pot restaurant in a former bomb shelter, they discover it’s linked by a single wall to the bank vault next door. While deciding to take the easy money or go to the police, they find out one of the bank’s employees is a former classmate and look to enlist her in deciding their future. The movie ended on a happy note with the four friends eating together loosely discussing their future on the roof of the hospital where Liu Bo is admitted.[5]
The film grossed US$5.7 million on its opening day in China.[6] It grossed a total of CN¥370.5 million in China.[3] It grossed US$58.4 million worldwide.[2]
Critical response
Chongqing Hot Pot received a 22% approval rating on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 9 reviews and has an average rating of 6.1/10.[7] James Marsh of Screen Daily said that "while scant characterisation and flailing tonal shifts may prevent the film from standing up to serious scrutiny, Yang is clearly out to have fun, and on that front his belated second feature certainly delivers."[1]
