Paper Marriage (1988)
Reviewed by: Frank Lakatos on 2005-12-08
Summary: Sammo Hung's best moder action comedy ever
This is Sammo Hung's best modern comedy movie ever, besdies his Jackie Chan and Yuen Biao collaborations. He and Maggie Cheung act the heck out of each other, the fights are scenes are brutal, the loud kickboxing effects are LOUDER than usual, which gives the fight scenes more edge and impact(thanks to a beautiful transfer from Universe DVD), the keyboard music score is cool and beautiful, Philip Ko and Billy Cheung fight Sammo in the ring, while Sammo and Billy fight Dick and his Canadian goons in that giant Vancouver mall, in an exceptional and lengthy final fight, where Sammo fights Wei and loses, then Bill Chow fights Wei in a superkickers match, which is short, but brutal, as Sammo wa sgoing for quality over quantity in his modern day movies at the time. The are problems with the setting, as Sammo says he is in LA, while he then says to Dick Wei, "Meet me at the Vancouver mall", or something like that. Besides that error, this is an excellent HK action comedy, and one of Hung's last quality movies. Superior. *****/*****