Chicken a La Queen (1990)
Reviewed by: mpongpun on 2003-07-29
When you first take a look at the DVD cover, you may come to a conclusion that this flick has gotta be some kind of happy chick flick with a few cute looking girls. Looks are deceiving. The last thing this flick is about is happiness. All you will see is gritty street life for Whores, pimps bitch slapping their “Chickens”, drugs, and a boat load of fights. I would venture a guess that maybe 75% of this flick has somebody getting a beat down, getting slapped in the face, cut up with a blade, or being pushed off a high rise. Another 10% of the flick deals with a couple of chicks, PK (Rachel Lee) and Lam Pik Seng (Sarah Lee), yelling at everything and everybody or lighting up a cancer stick in each scene that I can recall them in. Speaking of the two leading ladies, Rachel Lee and Sarah Lee, who are REAL sisters in the REAL world, I cannot even come to grips that these are the same two ladies that I saw in kiddy-type flicks such as Fantasy Island, Happy Ghost, and Sweet Sixteen to name a few mid 80’s flicks that come to mind that were mostly done by Cinema City. And what’s up with Cinema City? They go from doing a bunch of kiddy-fantasy type flicks to hard core “on fire” flicks like School on Fire and Prison on Fire . Overall, I would rate the flick average. It’s nice to see one of my favorite guys in Hong Kong cinema, Shing Fui On, in a decent role. Also, for once, it’s nice to see Roy Cheung in a different role than a Triad Boss with a couple of loose screws upstairs.