| Overview: | Mahjong Dragon follows the story of two characters: Fan Sau-Tin (Josephine Siao), a Hong Kong cop with a gambling problem, and Quick Hands (Zhao Wen Zhao), a gambler and ex-convict who's on the run from his former buddy Tin Lone (Ken Lo), a gangster and former gambler who wants to make use of Quick Hands skills, since his own finger was cut off three years ago when he was caught cheating. Sau-Tin goes to mainland China to find a husband, and she hooks up with Quick Hands, who needs to get away from Tin Lone. She agrees to marry him and get him a passport, and in return he promises to win her enough money to set her up for life. From there the plot spins off into a number of different threads, including the obligatory love triange, er, quadrangle, until Tin Lone and his band show up for bloody showdown with Quick Hands.
Mahjong Dragon is an entertaining film, but it suffers from too many plot threads in one film. It's got gambling, kung-fu, a comedy of errors, unrequited love, sappy tragedy, and a bunch of other stuff. The film tends to drag in places as it jumps from one thread to the other instead of focusing on the main plot, and the comedy wavers between genuine humor and dumb silliness. Fortunately, there are a few good fight scenes which keep the movie interesting, and the final battle in the fruit market is not to be missed. I personally believe mainlander, Zhao Web Zhuo (AKA Chiu Man-Cheuk) is a rising star and see him as a viable replacement for the aging Jet Li.
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