Born to Be King (2000)
Reviewed by: Sydneyguy on 2003-05-24
Summary: Not as bad as i thought
I am not a Y&D fan by the way. But i don't think it matters. I felt i got the same enjoyment out of the first 3 episodes. While this movie did focus more on plot and i have only from to this date seen Y&D 1-3,

Why did Micheal Tse character become a bad guy? Why is Roy Cheung clones keep appearing as bad guys? Isn't SHi Qu character a twin of her character in Portland street blues? Without watching the series, if you jump watching it in the series you feel you missed something!! Also same actors playing different characters in different movies may confused those who haven't been up to date with whats happening and worst of all it makes the movie/series CHEAP!! Can't you get other actors to play those roles?

Anyway back to the movie. It was ok, though it was 2 hours long it felt like the ending came too quick. I felt it wasn't explored enough. The built up suspense came thundering down very quickly at the end.

Not much action in this movie either. The one thing i really dont like about this series is when someone dies they come back as other characters, almost not acknowledging that "HEY i think they look like someone i KILLED!" I guess maybe the next movie it will star Ekin and Jordan playing ALL the roles but as different characters.........

Back to the movie, the introduction of characters became too quick. I was lost who killed who, and also the lack of character development didn't help either. The new characters you just couldn't care for.

I feel like Ho Nams love life was just a filler to make the movie 2 hours, it didn't contribute much to the overrall story

OK after all the bad things i have said i still was able to watch it to the end and was entertained.......and left a little confused, after all what happening to Lui's killer friend, no one care about him??

6/10