The Lord of Amusement (1999)
Reviewed by: beyond asiaphilia on 2010-05-12
Summary: meh
Saw this one for half-off in Chinatown yesterday so I picked it up--the cast includes Francis Ng, Nick Cheung, and Ng Man-Tat, among others, so I thought it might be entertainingly wacky. Unfortunately it's really boring and not terribly funny, with bad storytelling and even worse character development. Nick Cheung in particularly is not very impressive--apparently he was in his Stephen Chiau Sing-Chi knockoff phase & he mostly mugs and acts goofy throughout. Francis Ng is remarkably uninspired, although he hasn't got much material to work with, and the whole movie looks like it was shot over a weekend in an empty hostess bar.

I think I want my five bucks back.
Reviewer Score: 1