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From: film review dept
Category: Films
Date: 04 July 2005
Stephen Chow, writes directs and stars in his films. And they're good. Pleasing the occidental pseud who needs some oriental visual exuberance incorporating hollywood cliches while stirring the mix with a few new moves from the East.
There is a manic cartoonish hyper visuality to this and his other film Shaolin Soccer, every scene is either viewed from some unfeasible digital angle, or involves pushing sight gags to credible extremities, like Who Framed Roger Rabbit without the dumb rabbit. The humour is vigorously crude and occasionally lol funny, and the violence meaningless, painless, inventive, and entertaining.
The love interest, as in Shaolin Soccer, is damaged, mute in this case, with hyper acne in the last one. A theme? or a pathology? The setting is colonial era China but that doesn't seem to matter, or at least only as a parallel to the free-wheeling danger and gangsterism of todays free marketish red dragon.
All in all in all. Interesting.
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