To Err is Humane (1987)
Reviewed by: mpongpun on 2003-01-03
Sammo plays some low level employee named Ting Siu Chung who works at jewelry shop. He’s underpaid and underappreciated but still loyal to the company. When some robbers jack him for the company’s payout for a diamond deal, Ting is suspected of colluding with the robbers. Ting is furious. His life was on the line and he had been loyal to the company for all those years and now his bosses are suspecting him of stealing? Forget loyalty. Ting decides to get even with the company by kidnapping his boss, Ms. Chou (Leung Fan), and holding her for ransom. Instead of kidnapping Ms. Chou, he mistakenly kidnaps her step daughter, Jo (Joey Wang). Meanwhile, another low level employee of the jewelry company, Biu (Kenny Bee), has been watching Ting’s every move and decides to tail him. While Ting is out of his apartment, Biu kidnaps Jo from Ting and attempts to blackmail Ting into giving him some of the ransom money for Jo by going public with some evidence he has on Ting. The two then get a few a chances at getting the ransom money from Jo’s father, but the outcome ends in failure. When they do manage to get the money in the end, it gets taken away from them by some robbers (hilarious event at the bank). In the end, Biu and Ting, get nada for all their exploits but when they come back to work, they do get a little consolation prize. I kind of liked this movie and I found that for a kidnapping flick, this one is pretty low drama. Usually kidnapping flicks are intense and the cops are hotheads and the kidnap victim is stressed out. In this flick, everything is the opposite. Also, if you are looking for a lot of fights, forget about this flick. There is barely any, and I guess that’s why nobody really talks of this flick.