Ah Kam (1996)
Reviewed by: Inner Strength on 2002-05-26
Summary: Starts good, but ends bad.
Well, like the majority of reviewers here, I didn’t find Ah Kam to offer very much more than simply a documentary about stunts. As the others said, it’s about a stunt women, Kam(Yeoh) who teams up with a stunt director, Lik (real life action director Sammo Hung), who also leads a triad life (like 50% of HK directors!) showing the ups and downs in the filming industry. For a drama, it’s not very good, it’s set at completely the wrong pace. The almost documentary look started off okay, but just when you expect something to build up, nothing happens. Well, a rather phoney romance happens, then a kidnapping, with little interest to the viewer as they are just getting into the film, it just jumps from story to story.

Still, both Michelle Yeoh and Sammo Hung appeared to act reasonably well, considering their thin plot for a script. Mang Hoi jokes around as usual, making it enjoyable at times, and some of the action is okay (though limited), but not a lot else is particularly interesting.

Some more serious thought should have been put into this film, to make the viewer more interested.

Rating: [2/5]
Reviewer Score: 4