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| GOD OF GAMBLERS 2. Starring - Andy Lau - Cheung Man - Ng Man Tat - Stephen Chiao. Director - Wang Jing. One year after becoming the disciple of Ko Chun aka the god of gamblers, Little Knife has become quite competent in the art of gambling and is honoured by being given the title of ‘Knight of gamblers’. He is soon confronted by Sing the ‘Saint of gamblers’ who too also wants to become a student of the master. Accompanied by uncle Tat, Sing reveals his special powers to Little Knife and his bodyguard Loong Ng. He sees this as the only way to get both his and Ko Chun’s attention. This is all revealed to Mr Chan who has been incarcerated on the charge of manslaughter. He holds the God of gamblers wholly responsible for his imprisoned state and sees Little Knife as the chink in Ko Chun’s armour. He sends his son Hussein in to exploit this weakness by any means necessary. After attacking Little Knife at his home Tat and Loong Ng are kidnapped. Whilst holding these two captive Hussein sets about his fathers plan to discredit Ko Chun by announcing that he is in actual fact the real student of the god of gamblers. Sing and Little Knife must team up if they ever want to save the kidnapped pair and reclaim the title of the Knight of gamblers. Firstly let me say this is not the best movie in the world, with somewhat uninteresting side plots it is easy to get distracted from the film. The premise is fairly simple, Little Knife is honoured, then dishonoured then honoured again. Using as much comedy as is possible to deter from the weak plot Chiao and Tat are the only real reasons I would recommend this title. Together they are fantastic as is usual for these two and carry their roles with ease. Andy Lau on the other hand looks somewhat out of place here, his comedy lacks any real punch and his action moments are so few and far between they are not worth talking about. The rest of the cast seem to have been thrown in just to make the numbers up with Loong Ng his daughter Loong Kau and Dream Lo given so little to do that they may as well not have been here. Again as is usual for Asian comedy movies the camerawork and direction are of no real relevance with Wang Jing seemingly relying on Chiao and Tat sell this movie to the masses. Unless you are a fan of Chiao and Tat comedy movies then there is nothing here for you. I love the people who do subtitles for Asian cinema often throwing up bizarre translations like the one here when Sing is pouring his heart out to Little Knife. LK – ‘What’s up’ Sing – ‘I didn’t want to say but I’ve got no idea. I can’t help from telling you’ ‘Last night my uncle took away my girl’ ‘He took away my girl’ ‘He’s a born cunt struck. He’s unscrupulous; he’s a beast. 5*****stars. |
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