Rich and Famous (1987)
Reviewed by: Inner Strength on 2007-07-07
Summary: Poor
Basically another gangster movie, but there are so many problems. It's dogged with poor acting, terrible effects, and lack of originality in the story. When you consider the classic HK movies releases around the same time, this is truly put in it's place.

The story is basically about 2 brothers, one up to no good (Alex Man), and high in gambling debts. When he trys to rip off the owner of a race track, he is pretty much forced to do favours for the boss to repay him. This eventually goes on to betraying his own brother, the good boy - played by Andy Lau. Andy Lau's character is helped by his friend (a very pathetic looking Alan Tam in this one) and another gang boss (Chow Yun-Fat). There is then 60 minutes of nothing pretty much, random gang fights etc, but leads up to the point where Chow Yun-Fat marries a girl he wants to settle down with and leave the gang scene. A huge battle commences as Alex Man turns up with his goons to try and kill him and his new wife. A lof of bullets fired, both Chow & his wife are hit, and the final fight takes place with eveyone injured and Alan Tam's character dies from his injuries. But the overall ending was happier than expected.

Worth a watch, but the poor production values and the plot as well as acting just doesn't make it worth seeing again. When you see some of Taylor Wong Tai-Loi's other works after this, you can see he did at least improve eventually from this early outing.
Reviewer Score: 4