This is a really great movie, and one I'd warn against reading ANY reviews that might include spoilers! That said, here's a spoiler free and brief review! Eric Kot is a hit man who's hard pressed to get work in the current economic recession! His wife even encourages him to make "cold" sales calls to try and drum up business (with some pretty hilarious results!) Many of his clients are rich house wives who have nothing to do all day except play Mahjong and have people killed and it's one such woman who insists that he video tape a hit so she can have the pleasure of seeing her enemy die. Eric soon discovers he'll need a partner to do this sort of thing properly! Enter Cheung Tat Ming as an unemployed Assistant Director with a degree from NY Film Academy and aspirations to be the next Martin Scorsese! It doesn't take long before ALL the Mahjong players as well as some triad bosses catch on to this fad, and Eric and Tat Ming are rolling in dough!
The entire cast is excellent, working from a unique and creative script which takes lots of unexpected turns! Very funny stuff, parodying the killer and triad genres, as well as the whole HK film industry itself!
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