God of Gamblers
God of Gamblers (1989)
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FlagebnYnc
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097244/
IMDB Score: 7.3
Synopsis from IMDB: A master gambler loses his memory, and is befriended by a street hustler who discovers his supernatural gambling abilities
Genre: Action / Drama / Comedy / Feel Good
Review: This movie was thoroughly entertaining to watch, it's overpacked with goofiness and seriousness at the same time yet you know that the cast and crew had fun producing this which makes it more the better as a feel-good movie as there's that genuinity behind the comedy. Though it is flawed at some technical and plot points I could ignore them as they didn't stand out too much. It is like Rain Man, and perhaps is a copy considering the former came out in 88 but I won't compare the two.
The acting is satisfactory, the theme music is well beyond-legendary and the characters are so well created. The only problems I had, though I could not hold the original scriptwriter accountable but perhaps the distributors for was the poor translation from Cantonese to English subtitles. There were many grammatical English errors and some quotes, though perhaps would have made sense in an Eastern context made no sense in a Western Context. Like for example, there was a scene where Yun-Fat says 'I hope you a very happy new years' to his fake-girlfriend's father (she needed someone to pretend to be her boyfriend) and the man wanted to beat him up. Perhaps someone could shed light on what this means to me?
Overall, this movie from an objective score based on traditional filmmaking qualities deserves an 7/10. But on my personal scale, I give it a 9.5/10 as I prefer feel-good goofy movies that are lighthearted and aren't downright patronising. I've seen it about 4 times now, might see it again sometime soon.
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Originally Posted by The_Damned
I actually had the opposite reaction to yours The Damned, I loved the first half and found the 2nd half to lose a bit of momentum. It kind of outstayed its welcome then ended abruptly which was a bit annoying. My favourite characters were the Geoff Goldblum Jurassic Park kinda dood and the ginger haired guy who owned the lizard...There wasn't anyone who was really all that annoying though, for this kind of movie they did a great job with the cast. Rhianna was great, even if she didn't come out of a cake ala Under Seige as I'd hoped (or was I the only one fantasizing this >_>). Overall Battleship is big dumb fun, WAY more enjoyable than RotF and DotM combined. 7/10.
