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Stephen Chow's follow-up to SHAOLIN SOCCER ups the over-the-top action quotient by about three zillion percent. The story is set in 1930s Hong Kong, with Chow as a shaggy-haired, would-be bad guy named Sing, who gets caught up in the middle of a war between the top-hat-wearing Axe gang and the hard scrabble inhabitants of Pig Sty Alley. Chow--who wrote, produced, and directed--doesn't step in as the star here for quite a while, letting the comic duties fly in a myriad of directions: a landlady in curlers (Yuen Qiu) has a yell that can flatten buildings; people get kicked across courtyards and through walls; musician assassins whip ghost sabers from lyre strings, and a mental patient in pink flip-flops named "the Beast" (Leung Siu Lung) catches bullets in his fingers. Buoyed by SOCCER's box office success, HUSTLE uses bigger production values and a dizzying amount of CGI-enhanced martial arts (imagine Bruce Lee vs. Bugs Bunny in THE MATRIX). It's full of references to other films and filmmakers, revering spaghetti westerns and '70s Shaw brothers movies a la Tarantino's KILL BILL (fight choreographer Yuen Wo Ping worked on both films). It also pays sly homage to the works of Wong Kar Wai, D.W. Griffith, Sam Raimi, Jean-Luc Godard, Stanley Kubrick, and Akira Kurosawa. Raymond Wong's inspired score matches each cinematic reference with the appropriate cue as the camera circles and swoops around the sprawling sets. This is a real treat, more than a great action film or comedy, it's a great film period, and one that set box office records in the East.
Very funny and amusing film thats takes a very comical approach to the kung fu cliches. Loved it sonce i was a kid,both Chinese and English dub are great!
I have already seen this movie but wanted a copy of my own for future viewing. It was just as funny as I remembered and I will probably be watching many more times.
This film has something for everyone and is non-stop from start to finish! I found myself wanting to spend more time with the characters when it finished! Great balance of story and action.
I bought this product because I went to go and see it a long time ago in theaters with one of my friends and I thought it was really funny. I recently saw something on the internet that made me remember it and I really wanted to watch it again and instead of renting it I decided to just buy it instead. So I came to ebay and I found for an awesomely low price, snagged that and now I watch it all the time with my buddies. I really liked the product I got, nothing wrong with it at all, brand new and still in the shrink wrap just like promissed. This movie is a comedy movie about japanese kung fu, it has a pretty good story line and the best way to watch it is with the subtitles, the dubbed over just sounds really wierd and it doesn't really look right. Plus you get to hear how it was originally written!Read full review
There's a lot happening in this movie, and sometimes I think that it could have benefitted by a solid rewrite, and an edit that firmly places the movie in a catagory. On the other hand, whenever it is on TV I watch until the end-regardless of where I came in or what time it is.
It borrows visual effects from movies like "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," is more funny than any Jackie Chan flick, and moves in a way that reminds me of Tarentino's "Kill Bill" films. In short, an entertaining feature.