When a man named Million is found murdered, done in with an ice pick, Chow Sing-Sing who's a dead ringer for the man goes undercover to take his place. He do this to see if Million's wife had something to do with her husband getting killed, even though his girlfriend hates when he goes undercover. The deeper he goes undercover, the more he starts to feel some kind of attraction to Million's wife, and he also finds out that his girlfriend maybe playing around on the side too.
This is the third movie in the Fight Back to School trilogy, and this time the movie's a parody of Basic Instinct and does not deal with schools of any kind. Funny man Stephen Chow stars as Chow Sing-Sing, who goes undercover in order to solve a murder case. When a guy named Million is done in with an ice pick, Chow's boss orders Chow to go undercover since he looks exactly like the man who was murdered. He tells Million's wife that he has lost his memory, but even though she think he's a fake, she accepts him anyway.
No attempt is made to connect this third movie to it's predecessors, so you don't have to have seen them in order to understand this. Thing though is that this one is the least funniest movie out of the three (that of course all depends on your taste). It's comedy all the way, and while it sometimes works really well, most of the time it just feels a bit too much. It never really takes itself seriously at any point but since this is not, like parodies in general, a serious movie to begin with, it doesn't really matter.
What you need to have seen though is Basic Instinct, because if you haven't seen it, a lot of the jokes will be lost, and the story won't seem half as good either. Anita Mui portrays Sharon Stone and does a great job doing so, and we get to see a lot of things that happened in Basic Instinct happen here too, but in a comical way of course. Also we get to see some parody of God of Gamblers 2, which Chow was in as well.
Fight Back to School 3 has some moments every now and then when it's very hard not to laugh. But in the end it just becomes too much and feels like a mess, kinda like watching a Leslie Nielsen movie or something. The acting is ok, if somewhat over-the-top 80 percent of the time. But on the other hand, over-the-top acting actually works when it comes to this type of HK flick.
Just like with a lot of parodies/comedies, the first half hour or so works well, and has some quite funny stuff in it. But eventually it feels to much and keeps going like that for another hour, even though some good comedy is delivered every now and then. Stephen Chow does a good job and so does Anita Mui, and it manages to make parody of Basic Instinct pretty well at times. But in the end there's more humour that doesn't work than humour that actually works and it's easy to get tired of it all halfway through. If you're a fan of Stephen Chow you might wanna check out, it's not bad but far from being great.
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ALTERNATIVE TITLE: Tao xue wei long zhi long guo ji nian
MOVIE YEAR: 1993
DIRECTOR: Jing Wong
WRITING CREDITS: Jing Wong
GENRE: Comedy, Thriller
CAST: Stephen Chow, Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Anita Mui
COUNTRY: Hong Kong
RUNTIME: 89 min
RATING: 5/10
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