Yesterday, 10:02 AM
I was randomly surfing YouTube like I do and this popped up. It stars Philip Ng, who I know personally, and Yuen Qiu, who you may remember as the Landlady in Kung Fu Hustle, or the Karate girl in You Only Live Twice, or as I think of her, one of the seven Little Fortunes alongside with Jackie Chan, Sammy Hung, etc.
Phil plays a gangster who quickly rises up in the ranks, but then is double crossed at a party where he is blinded. Yep, another blind master. Yuen Qiu is a Kung Fu master/Chinese doctor, who kills a gang boss that set up her cop husband, and gets set to jail. She quickly takes out the jail shot caller, who dominates the toilet paper market, and has a baby, who gets taken away by her jailers. That's all in flashback. Enter Phil, years later, who is tasked to impersonate her long lost son, in a long game revenge play, but then a genuine bond develops. Oh, and she has Alzheimers.
It play snout like a Kung Fu dramedy, with some crazy juggling fight scenes and amusing over-the-top assassins (a villainess with switchblade-spiked high heels is particularly entertaining). I am biased, of course, because I always enjoy seeing Phil on screen. He gets few emotional scenes too and it's good to see his range. Yuen Qiu seems typecast now as landlady types, older women with fantastic Kung Fu, and that works. It's good to see an older women kick a lotta ass. She still moves very well.
Mildly D00M recommended.
Seen here on YouTube:
Phil plays a gangster who quickly rises up in the ranks, but then is double crossed at a party where he is blinded. Yep, another blind master. Yuen Qiu is a Kung Fu master/Chinese doctor, who kills a gang boss that set up her cop husband, and gets set to jail. She quickly takes out the jail shot caller, who dominates the toilet paper market, and has a baby, who gets taken away by her jailers. That's all in flashback. Enter Phil, years later, who is tasked to impersonate her long lost son, in a long game revenge play, but then a genuine bond develops. Oh, and she has Alzheimers.
It play snout like a Kung Fu dramedy, with some crazy juggling fight scenes and amusing over-the-top assassins (a villainess with switchblade-spiked high heels is particularly entertaining). I am biased, of course, because I always enjoy seeing Phil on screen. He gets few emotional scenes too and it's good to see his range. Yuen Qiu seems typecast now as landlady types, older women with fantastic Kung Fu, and that works. It's good to see an older women kick a lotta ass. She still moves very well.
Mildly D00M recommended.
Seen here on YouTube:
Shadow boxing the apocalypse