So many gangsters… so little time.
Director: Stephen Chow
Producer: Stephen Chow, Jeffrey Lau, Chui Po-Chu
It's the 1940s, and the notorious Axe Gang terrorizes Shanghai. Small-time criminals Sing and Bone hope to join, but they only manage to make lots of very dangerous enemies. Fortunately for them, kung fu masters and hidden strength can be found in unlikely places. Now they just have to take on the entire Axe Gang.
99 min
Rating: 7.466/10
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Top Cast
Stephen Chow
Sing
Yuen Qiu
Landlady
Yuen Wah
Landlord
Lam Tze-Chung
Sing's Sidekick
Bruce Leung Siu-Lung
The Beast
Huang Shengyi
Fong
Movie Info
Director: Stephen Chow
Producer: Stephen Chow, Jeffrey Lau, Chui Po-Chu
Production Companies: Huayi Brothers & Taihe Film Investment, Star Overseas, Beijing Film Studio, CP Film Production Asia, Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Classics, China Film Group Corporation
Countries: China, Hong Kong, United States of America
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John Chard:
Quite an experience, and in a great way as well!
Went into this one totally blind as to its contents, truth is, is that I was mooching round the shops yesterday and came across an Asian triple pack DVD at a bargain price, since one of the films was Jet Li starrer Unleashed, i thought it was worth the cheap price on offer. Got home and the write up on the back of the case didn't give much away as regards plot for Kung Fu Hustle, an Axe Gang, some guy named Sing wants to be in the gang, and that some creaky old residents in a place called Pig Sty Ally are tougher than they look.
What I got was what I can only describe as a live cartoon full of class and style, the sort of flip side to the more arty Asian films that have (rightly) become massively popular in the subsequent decadse. Written, directed, produced and starring Stephen Chow (Sing), Kung Fu Hustle is a remarkably breathless piece of work, the plot is threadbare for sure, but it really matters not, because Chow has fused the grand old genre staple punch up with balletic comedy, it's quite something to behold. It's as loud as a face off between Motorhead & Iron Maiden, yet it's just so flipping tender at the same time! Incredible sequences will dazzle you one moment and then have you laughing the next, I'm quite annoyed that I didn't catch on to this film back in 2004, but even now some years later this film is still a breath of fresh air on the home format release. See it and roll with it, enjoy. 9/10