| From 1990, Stephen Chow's breakthrough year, comes this action-comedy where we see little evidence of the new King of Hong Kong comedy as All For The Winner hadn't come out yet. Admittedly a few select gags and mannerisms sees Chow doing what would become his trademark deadpan humour but this production primarily employed Stephen Chow the actor. One of Danny Lee's core group of actors, Parkman Wong (Law With Two Phases, Organized Crime & Triad Bureau) directs this story of cop Lon (Chow) going undercover, once again, to nail a triad boss (Michael Chan) suspected to have performed a diamond heist.
Frankly reeking of ordinary and unremarkable (and "borrowing" more than just a few storyelements from City On Fire), Parkman Wong's ambitions doesn't seem to go beyond point and shoot. The pairing of Michael Chan and Stephen Chow works reasonably well but when attempting high drama, The Unmatchable Match registers zero. A few shoot-outs and staple actor of the genre Shing Fui On livens up but the film today is a mere curiosity to see Chow during these early stages. Danny Lee briefly appears and he was one to use Chow in various actioners during this time so we should be thankful to Hong Kong cinema's most frequent movie cop. Also with Vivian Chow and Kwan Hoi-San. |
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