Run and Kill (1993)
Reviewed by: dandan on 2006-05-24
Summary: you ever have one of those weeks...
(full plot spoilers ahead)



first you catch your wife sleeping with the shop keeper, on your anniversary, no less! then you get drunk with a young lady who sees your money and takes it upon herself to hire a killer to teach your wife a lesson; in your drunken state you mumble what the killer thinks is an agreement and then you pass out. the next morning, you stumble home, find your wife in bed with the shopkeeper and then, all of a sudden, two blade weilding maniacs break down your front door, kill the shopkeeper and your wife and knock you unconscious.

when you come round, the police give you some shit, before letting you go, at which point a gangland leader informs you that he's very pissed off that you got the police involved, but you're not quite sure what's going on, because you'd been so drunk the night before: then you're informed that you owe $800,000 for the killing. things aren't really going your way...

you don't know what to do, but wake yup the next morning and find that they're pretty serious about getting the money, so serious that by the end of the day they've burnt your shop to the ground. now seems like a good time to lay low, so you mooch up to your house in the mainland, only to find your neighbour and his gang, led by his psychopathic brother, squatting there. luckily, the neighbour says he'll help you out of your trouble back home; a silver lining?

unfortunately not, the attempt to rough up the gangland boss goes horribly wrong and you end up as his captive in a refugee camp; at least you're not your neighbour though, he's supspended from the ceiling with a bamboo pipe rammed in his knee and the blood draining steadily from him. luckily, in a way, the psycho-brother turns up, kills everyone and enlists you to carry his ailing brother back to his hideout. unfortunately the brother dies in your arms, but luckily you manage to fall down a big hill before the psycho can cut you limb from limb.

you get picked up by the police, but then the psycho-brother takes your mother and daughter hostage. the police try and bargain with him, but he throws your mother out of a window and she plummets to her death. now the police are more than happy to hand you over to the psycho in an attempt to get your daughter released; unfortunately they make a blunder and he escapes with both you and your daughter.

things get worse when you get to his hideout and he ties the two of you up; then sets fire to your daughter who burns to death in front of you; leaving only a small charred corpse. the next morning, after not much sleep, the psycho decides that it's your turn to burn. fuelled by anger and fear you manage to break free before you burn and manage to escape, small charred corpse in tow. unfortunately, your not being too careful and you knock the head off the corpse as your running along a corridor.

now you're really pissed off. you catch a couple of lucky breaks though and eventually, you manage to blow up the psycho brother with a gas cannister that you've stumbled across; what a stroke of luck! it's just a shame that you're now alone and in a state of mental psychosis as a result of this string of bad luck...



(spoilers ended)



poor kent cheng does an admiral job as the extremely unlucky fatty cheung, simon yam is a little scary as the psycho-killer and danny lee shows his face for a couple of minutes as an ineffective policeman. billy tang has crafted a nasty little catIII film that doesn't pull and punches, but strays into the realms of sillyness on more than one occassion. an entertaining bit of exploitation, although not to everyone's taste...