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Year:
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2001
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Nicholas Tse and friends |
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Director:
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O
Sing-Pui
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Action:
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Philip
Kwok Chun-Fung
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Cast:
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Eason
Chan Yik-Shun,
Julian Cheung Chi-Lam,
Ruby Lin (Lam Sum-Yu),
Nicholas Tse Ting-Fung,
Raymond Wong Bak-Ming, Hacken
Lee Hak-Ken, Law Lan,
Spencer Lam Seung-Yi,
Tats Lau Yi-Tat, Jerry
Lamb Hiu-Fung |
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The
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Finally,
a film that makes Wong Jing look like Stanley Kubrick! |
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Review
by Kozo: |
Those mavens at TVB were the producers of this sorry excuse
for a Lunar New Year’s Comedy. The obviously hurried and cheap
production values can be directly attributed to them as well.
Eason Chan and Julian Cheung (who recently had a career resurgence
on TVB) play two comic book artists who make it big
but let a woman (Ruby Lin) get between them. Along the way
we get various comic book parodies, including riffs on A
Man Called Hero, Storm Riders, and a few others
that weren't made into movies.
The only reason to watch this film
would be for the inside jokes on HK’s comic industry (which
may be a mystery to some), and for Nicholas Tse as the imaginary
comic book hero of many a dream sequence. His appearance is
essentially a cameo, but his screen presence works wonders.
Conversely, Eason Chan turns in one of the worst performances
EVER. The rest of the film doesn't fare much better, with
the simply awful Tony Wong (king of Jademan comics) parody
standing out as probably the most annoying comedy bit of the
year. Yes, this movie is as bad as they come. (Kozo 2001) |
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Availability:
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DVD
(Hong Kong)
Region 0 NTSC
Widesight Entertainment
Widescreen
Cantonese and Mandarin Language Tracks
English and Chinese Subtitles |
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