Born to Be King (2000)
Reviewed by: Fatty on 2001-08-01
Summary: Pretty good film
Ok, for a Y&D movie, this is a ok title for a film. I mean you can use this title for a part in the Evil Dead series or in a James Bonb film, anyways time for my pointless review of BTBK...

Basically this movie deals with all of the Y&D gang (I guess) Chicken gets married to a Japanese girl so he can be part of the Yamada Gang, but he gets blamed for a shooting and must hide out with his wife. But Akira wants other ideas involving Chicken's girl...In all a pretty weird Y&D film IMO

after watching Those Were the Days, I was able to check out BTBK, I thought it was a ok Triad film and it was ALOT different then TWTD, this story basically involves nearly everyone this time. Ekin Cheng is ready to be like a big leader for Hung Hing, plus his girl (Played by Shu Qi) is hoping he will ask that one question, plus she's like all over him in the movie, until you get near the end when Ho-Nam runs into a Smartie look alike and this pisses Shu Qi off, meanwhile you have Chicken marrying a Japanese girl so he can become part of the Yamada Gang or sometin, but Akira is pissed off that he didn't get the girl. So he rapes her, and pisses Chicken off with that aswell, then you have Liu a sneaky bitch who basically wants power...


Jordan Chan plays his character quite well again, jeez probably most of the time he probably thinks he is Chicken since he played him so many times, Ekin Cheng played a laid back Ho-Nam (I guess) and he kicked Liu's ass quite well, Shu Qi on the other hand was abit annoying, but she was damn fine looking in this film tho :). Gigi Lai plays the Smartie look a like and I thought she did a ok job, I haven't seen the other movies involving Smartie so I can't really say anything much about that. Liu was a pure badass, he played the whimp type near the beginning and then he becomes the badass. Roy Cheung I though did a pretty vewl job as Akira, I gave him some heat when he raped Chicken's girl, but he got a knife in the chest, so that solves Chicken's problem for now. Sonny Chiba played the leader of the Yamada gang and does one great job with it aswell. The only other HK movie I've seen him in is Storm Riders...Everybody else did a great job in the film and now wants me to watch the rest of the series (I'll try and start with the prequel...if I can, if not I'll watch whatever one I come up with first)

in all a pretty good film, I somewhat liked TWTD abit more, but both were very entertaining, but some parts in BTBK can be abit boring, but then it gets good when there is more of Shu Qi :D...

6.5/10

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