In between Money Crazy and Follow The Star, John Woo reacquainted himself with the martial arts genre via the classic Last Hurrah For Chivalry and returning now to comedy, traces of a multi-genre thinker crops up in what essentially is Golden Harvest trying to achieve more success in the vein of the Hui Brother's landmark comedies. It's no surprise that Michael Hui and company does it better but Woo scores points with his breakneck pace and the generally amusing slapstick that Follow The Star is populated with. Outside of some quite extensive comedy fights (action directors Fung Hark On and Huang Ha are kept highly busy), a little bit of slow-motion, religious symbolism and gunplay marks some ever so slight precursors of what would be Woo's trademarks in the 80s/90s also.