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Review
by Kozo: |
An amusing but dated comedy, this early star vehicle
for Stephen Chow displays the undisciplined form that
would make him HK’s greatest comic actor. Chow plays
Wan-Sing, a two-bit thief who’s hired by Shing Fui-On
to romance an heiress. Shing’s cousin Fei-Fei (Sandra
Ng) is due to receive a massive inheritance when she
marries and Shing wants to steal the fortune for himself.
However, Fei-Fei turns out to be a fake. It seems evil
cousin Anthony Wong wants the money for himself and
enlists lowly garbage woman Feng (also Sandra Ng) to
impersonate his cousin and take the money.
Yes, all these multiple plot
threads criss-cross to no end, leading to a wacky action sequence set at sea. Even though the characters have evil
motives, the actors themselves are likable and there’s
enough agreeable shtick to make the film an enjoyable
if not crucial 90 minutes. Strange-looking
pop star and director Anthony Chan has an extended cameo
as a private dick who constantly bumps into Wan-Sing
and aids him whenever necessary. Amusing late eighties
fluff. It’s not art, but it doesn’t try to be. (Kozo
1999) |
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