| Buckle up for an insane ride with Chin Siu Ho, Maggie Cheung, Dick Wei, Elvis Tsui, Chow Yun-Fat and director Nam Nai Choi at the control panel! I love Hong Kong cinema for its class but equally much for its silliness and the movies of this director are prime examples of this. Nam takes an Indiana Jones storyline and mixes it with gore, pipes, fighting skeletons, bazookas and boy what a delightful mess this is. Yes, it is a bad movie but the willingness of the makers to put this on screen is so admirable and lovable. It doesn't reach the level of insanity seen in The Cat but should be experienced once at least to hear Chin Siu Ho threaten Maggie Cheung with a spanking....without pants!
Chow Yun-Fat plays Wisely, the brainchild of novelist Ngai Kong (who also appears in the sync sound prologue - Thanks to John Charles for pointing that out) and the popular Wisely character has also been portrayed by Waise Lee, Chin Kar-Lok and Andy Lau in movies over the years. |
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