t first, this looks like a classic gambling tale with all the crooks,
fights and card tricks you can ask for, but it does
have many surprises in store.

No-Name and Uncle Lo and card playing swindlers who have gone to Shenzun to gamble after the players in HK became 'to hard to fool' as they put it, however Uncle Lo gets too friendly with a local gangsters girlfriend
and Mr Tough (the gangster) beats up Uncle Lo.

On his way to invest his winnings from the previous night's gambling, No-Name sees Candy, 'the only blind model in Hong Kong' and immediately falls in love (as well as falling down).

The stakes become higher when No-Name starts trying to woo Candy and
Mr Tough wants him to start playing cards for him, but I'll leave you to find out what happens in the rest of the movie.

I really liked this movie, at first I thought it was going to be a Hong Kong
version of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking barrels, but I was surprised when
I found out otherwise. What I also liked was that the fight scenes seemed
more realistic than some films I've seen from HK (the hero tries to run away
at one point and gets kicked down an escalator.)

There's also an in-joke about piracy of movies in HK, which is a very
big problem for the film industry to deal with.

Although I didn't recognise any of the actors in this film, I reckon that
they all put in good performances and I would probably see another film
if I recognised them on the movie poster.

Overall, this is not the usual 'gambling story' but it does have some very
good sections and is interesting enough to warrant a look if it comes into
your local specialist on HK movies.

Rating : Queen, Jack, Ace, Ten (with a king hidden on top of the shoe),
(or 8/10)