| Fred (Tony Leung Chiu-Wai) and Keith (Jacky Cheung) are two aspiring triad followers but as death, destruction and bad luck follows them wherever they go, things are not as easy as they would like to believe. The fact that they're completely spineless and wimps when it comes to doing the dirty job does hurt also...
UFO enlists Blacky Ko to deliver this wild comedy, with rather splendid results...if complete lunacy and lack of a proper plot floats your bloat. Could've failed and in all honesty, the writing team (Joe Ma and James Yuen included) does deliver sophomoric, grating and loud mouthed comedy to leads Leung and Cheung. The performers takes the material and injects great life into it though, bouncing off each other very well. The triad genre gets a minor satirical touch also, with added black humour and violence but it all doesn't mean anything really. The romance angle with Anita Yuen (her first film and she received a Best New Artist award for her performance) and Tony Leung doesn't go anywhere but the unexpected jokes carry the film away from its potential pitfalls. It may be the days of being dumb for the guilty parties involved but we gladly sink to that level as well. Eric Tsang and Ken Tong appears also. |