Noted mainly for being the last film made before the 1997 handover of Hong Kong to mainland China and one made for minimum monies using end of reel sections of film stock, the film certainly doesn't lack energy or a foreboding air of pessimism. To a local audience of youngsters, I'm sure this is a cheering, full throttle and suitably anti establishment pleasure but for me this is a bit of an effort even to follow the limited storyline and hard to take much of the light relief derived from the 'retarded' fellow traveler. The delightfully named Fruit Chan has had success in China and made many more films since this one, its just that it all seems a long way from the charm and brutality of those Hong Kong movies I encountered and managed to survive in those way off video days.
Review of Made in Hong Kong
