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Summary: Doh San (God of Gamblers)
Review: "Chow Yun Who?" Were my first thoughts when my friend produced this dodgy-looking tape of some obscure-sounding Hong Kong film. Being, at that stage, very new to this sort of movie, I was somewhat sceptical.However, the following two-or-so hours were awe inspiring. The opening scene is amazing, with Chow Yun being extremely cool and demonstrating his godly gamling prowess. Whilst cleverly avoiding the unfriendly attentions of a gang of thugs he's just humiliated and relieved of over 10 million bucks, our hero falls into to a trap. Set as a plan for revenge on someone else, by three small-time gamblers, the trap causes Chow to lose his memory and gives him the mind of a kid. Under the care of the trio, the man's amazing gambling ability is discovered and they use it to thier advantage... This film rocks from begining to end. Despite the cheesy elevator-music version of "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" that keeps poping up in the feel-good sequences, it is more than compensated for by the heroic theme music that play eveys time Chow Yun is doing anything cool. "God Of Gamblers" combines slick gambling and action-packed gun battles with a clever plot, to create a masterpiece of Eastern cinematography.
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Summary: Doh San (God of Gamblers)
Review: "Chow Yun Who?" Were my first thoughts when my friend produced this dodgy-looking tape of some obscure-sounding Hong Kong film. Being, at that stage, very new to this sort of movie, I was somewhat sceptical. However, the following two-or-so hours were awe inspiring. The opening scene is amazing, with Chow Yun being extremely cool and demonstrating his godly gamling prowess. Whilst cleverly avoiding the unfriendly attentions of a gang of thugs he's just humiliated and relieved of over 10 million bucks, our hero falls into to a trap. Set as a plan for revenge on someone else, by three small-time gamblers, the trap causes Chow to lose his memory and gives him the mind of a kid. Under the care of the trio, the man's amazing gambling ability is discovered and they use it to thier advantage... This film rocks from begining to end. Despite the cheesy elevator-music version of "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" that keeps poping up in the feel-good sequences, it is more than compensated for by the heroic theme music that play eveys time Chow Yun is doing anything cool. "God Of Gamblers" combines slick gambling and action-packed gun battles with a clever plot, to create a masterpiece of Eastern cinematography.
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Summary: Ya gotta know when to hold 'em....
Review: ..know when ta fold 'em, know when to execute a backflip and shoot a guy in the neck in a parking garage! (Apologies to Kenny Rogers) Outstanding! Unique in its premise, humble with its humour, and ripping with its action, this one stands as one of Fat's more bizarre (read: good action sans Woo) films. You know the story from reading the other bits here, but just in case you need further proof, I had to throw in my two cents. Plus, this film also features (God, why can't I remember his name?!)as the arse-kickin' Mr Dragon. Well worth seeing just to see him take out a gang of would-be assailants in a passenger train! Buy it! Learn how to yell "Chocolate" in Cantonese! See two-fisted action in gambling parlors! I've run out of exclamation points!
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Summary: The HK Gambling movie that started it all
Review: Chow Yun Fat in one his finest non-Woo films. Chow plays a master gambler who gets into a bit of trouble when he loses his memory. He awakes in a childlike stage, forgetting the violent and money soaked life. Andy Lau plays a wanna be god of gamblers who takes care of Chocolate(Chow). The chemistry between the 2 is great, the action is stupendous. Seeing Chow pull of some card tricks is well worth the price.
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Summary: a great film but the subtitles are cut off and unreadable!
Review: I wish someone else had mentioned this, but this is a horrible trasfer of a great film. The video picture quality is very poor and made from a very scratchy film print. on top of that you will most likely NOT be able to read the subtitles (unless you can read Cantonese)as they are cropped off the bottom of the screen. Different televisions have different overscan rates (they amount the crop off the edges of the picture you are watching). This problem may not be as bad on another t.v. set, but the amount they were cut off on mine was far greater then the standard differences in overscan across different t.v. manufacturers lines so I doubt you will have a different experience. This is usually NOT an adjustable feature. Wish I had better news to print.
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Summary: A TAILOR MADE ROLE FOR CHOW
Review: I've been a MAD Chow Yun Fatt & GoG fan when this original movie was produced. I think they made a mistake; this was a 1989 movie, not 1990. Still, it's a real CLASSIC, spawning lots of copycats as well. It is indeed a TAILOR-MADE role for Chow, who is incredibibly charismatic!! See, even 10 years after the movie was produced people are still talking about it!!! Yes, of course, I couldn't agree more, Chow is the coolest actor in the world....and many say he's cool with the guns, but I prefer him handling cards. He's just sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo charismatic!!! This classic flick.... Mind and Dexterity.... Deft and Cunning.... Loyal and Humble.... God of the dices.... God of the mahjong tiles.... God.... OF GAMBLERS.
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Summary: Great movie (if you don't know chinese read this!)
Review: If you like Chow Yun-Fat, you will like this movie! I bought this movie first on vhs. The vhs is wide screen with chinese subtitle, and english under it. When they put it to DVD, they made it fit to television (ie not widescreen). In doing so they
cut off the english subtitles. IF YOU DON'T KNOW CHINESE DON'T BOTHER BUYING THIS, UNTIL THEY COME OUT WITH A BETTER VERSION!!
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Summary: Chow's Best Non-Woo Film
Review: One of the most popular Hong Kong films of alltime, this, along with Ringo Lam's City on Fire is Chow Yun-Fat's best non-John Woo film ever (Chow's done about 65 non-Woo films). The story is pretty clever, and Chow Yun-Fat once again steals every scene from a rising superstar- Andy Lau this time. Despite a lagged middle sequence where Chow gets partial-amnesia and acts like a child, the beginning and end make up for it. Director Wong Jing could do with some directing lessons, cause I don't think he helped make this film any good at all. He forgets about some important sub-stories (especially the Japanese gambler who wants revenge) and there are some unnecessary, unfunny jokes and a rather disturbing, unfitting scene in the film. But despite the many flaws, Chow Yun-Fat 's charisma makes this film what it is, the god of all Hong Kong gambling films.
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Summary: Great movie, lousy DVD
Review: The God of Gamblers is a super Hong Kong kung fu cheese fest, unfortunately, unless you speak Cantonese, the DVD is useless. This is because the subtitles appear cut off below the bottom of the screen (I assume due to a bad transfer). So unless you are sure a new version has been released don't buy this DVD
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