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烈火青春 (1998)
Rumble Ages


Reviewed by: mejones
Date: 03/22/2002
Summary: so-so

A trilogy of stories about young love, only slightly overlapping. The first bored me to tears, about a young guy, here we go again, forced to work for the triads b/c he can't seem to find any other job. In the process, he meets a young and innocent and virginal mainland girl who's being forced into prostitution. Can he save her from a unholy fate? and what about his pregnant girlfriend? The next story concerns Edmond Leung who's in love with his internet pen pal who refuses to meet him face to face. While he's pining away after her he meets a pretty shoplifter and begins a "relationship" with her whereby she lets him pretend she's the penpal and he pays her for her time! This segment basically looks like it ought to have been a long line of ads for perfume, wine and cars!

The last, and really only enjoyable story, involves Eason Chan as a somewhat mentally challenged flower shop employee. A couple of his buddies get him to help them break into a rich man's house and in the process he takes off his stocking mask, has an altercation with the man's daughter and they have to make a run for it. He also, however, nicks a photo of the girl and becomes enamoured with her. His pals go into hiding, but he insists "HK is a large city, what are the chances of the girl running into me again?" HAHA! Well, pretty good, though they don't do it in a really obvious way. The girl is played by Miriam Yeung and she's very funny here! I only wish this segment had been extended to the entire 90 minutes, in which case it would have made a touching and cute film.