Being a big fan of Andy Lau and a casual mahjong player I went into this movie with high expectations. Overall I really enjoyed myself while watching this movie. Andy was very funny as in Love on a Diet which was nice, I like him more as the comedian than a serious character like in Full Throttle or A Fighter's Blues. Anyways back to Fat Choi... the comedy was great but not slapstick, and Bonnie Wong shined as the mother with Alzheimers, sheer genius. I also enjoyed that this was a gambling movie and not about cards, not that I dislike them -on the contrary I love them- it's just nice to see a change in the standard genre to make a movie about mahjong. Speaking of mahjong, even though I play it every once in a while, I didn't know all of the special hands they were calling in the movie and it was hard for me to interpret whether to be happy or sad whenever they showed a player's hand, since I couldn't comprehend what special hand a player was shooting for in some of the scenes. My girlfriend watched this with me and has never played mahjong but still really enjoyed the movie, so I guess you don't have to fully understand everything to at least have a good time and laugh. Highly recommended to anyone who plays mahjong and even to people that don't. My only quarrel was with the plot besides the mahjong aspect. There were about 10 different subplots going on during the movie, and they never really came together cohesively. Sure in the end you could basically put two and two together, but they could have explained things better and not jumped around so much. Because of this part alone, my rating goes down slightly, but the comedy and the all-star actors make up for the rest. Overall, 8 out of 10.