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The combination of Leon Lai and Jordan Chan plus the female lead (also in "Who's The Woman, Who's The Man") gives some of the best action scenes in film. The scene where Jordan Chan hears enemies in the house while in the bath is fabulous, he has two problems, he is nude and people are trying to kill those he loves. The fight on the subway between Lai and Chan is funny and beautiful, and many have said the fight in the restaurant where Chan kills ten people for ten bowls of rice - you have to see the film- is the best ever. The feeling the charactars share, the emotions, the cinematic qualtiy, all make this one of my favorite movies ever. I never travel anywhere without it - a case where the prequel beats out the original films. | | LOG IN TO COMMENT ON THIS REVIEW! |
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| | | | | For a Wong Jing film, this is a well-made and earnest piece of work. Taking his cue from the Young and Dangerous series, Wong goes for the youth factor and, in a move rare for him, improved production quality (the use of sync sound and dazzling camera movements). For Wong, this is commendable. Combining the themes of martial arts films (brotherhood and sisterhood in a clan, betrayal, revenge, withdrawal from the martial world) with the usual God of Gamblers elements, the film, while still works on its own level, is no longer very exciting. | | LOG IN TO COMMENT ON THIS REVIEW! |
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| | | | | One has to give it to director Wong Jing for his skills in creating new interest in the God of Gamblers character. The design of such gimmicks as eating chocolate, applying gel to hair and wearing rings are dead on the smart-ass target. Though Wong Jing's films are crude, he has a talent in capturing the visual habits of young audiences and in presenting amusing entertainment of plebeian interests. Every image of the film is like a comic book panel: exciting, spontaneous but seriously lacking in human relationships. And for that, a movie that could have been better can only be considered good. | | LOG IN TO COMMENT ON THIS REVIEW! |
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| | | | | If possible, a prequel, in addition to providing fans with a reference to relish the original, should also offer more room for creativity. Thus, God of Gamblers 3, while going back to the youth of the protagonists Ko Chun and Lung Ng, arrange for them to meet in the earlier years even though their meeting in the original is supposed to be their first encounter. This works more or less as a parody of the original. Its theme and formula are like duplicates of the original: from betrayal to training to revenge, the expected pattern is repeated. Certainly a commercial calculation but also an homage to the "glorious accomplishments" of the previous film. | | LOG IN TO COMMENT ON THIS REVIEW! |
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