Happy Cheung (who's called Fatty) lives a good life, he has a beautiful wife and a nice daughter and he also owns his own business and everything just seems to go perfectly. But one day he finds out that his wife's cheating on him. Devastated he goes to a bar to drown his sorrows and there he meets a members of a Vietnamese underground gang. He tells his sad story and somehow he enlists that group to kill his wife. Later on his wife actually gets killed and now the gang wants money from Cheung for the hit or he's the next one to go. So Cheung seeks out his old friend Wong to come to his aid. But unfortunately Wong ends up dead and his psychotic brother Fung wants revenge on Cheung for getting his brother killed.
Here's a pretty good Cat III flick from master of the genre Billy Tang (Dr. Lamb, Brother of Darkness, Red to Kill). It's first and most an action flick, but has a lot of disgusting typical Cat III stuff in it which makes it part of the genre.
If you're into Cat III this one is definitely a must see. It's first of all super entertaining and has a lot of violence, gore and other HK elements that makes it so good to watch. Of course there are some over-the-top performances but it's a part of it all and is not a bad thing here really.
Kent Cheng delivers on all levels. It's extremely funny at times watching this fat man run and sweat and he has great comical timing. And towards the end his character changes and really delivers on the more brutal plan.
 I must say that I really like the story, it's simple but yet so entertaining. Everything is just perfect for the guy but suddenly all that was so perfect goes down the drain and from there on everything goes right down-hill and the movie really kicks off.
It's not as gory, sick and disgusting as some other Cat III movies out there but it still has it's charm. It's kinda cheesy but that's a good thing here, and most Cat III movies are kinda cheesy and gory and that's what makes them great.
It's not as "shocking" as some other Cat III movies but does not really need to be either. You kinda have to know what you're getting yourself into when watching a movie like this, I don't mean you'll be scared or anything like that, it's just not for everyone's taste, simple as that.
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ALTERNATIVE TITLE: Wu shu
MOVIE YEAR: 1993
DIRECTOR: Billy Tang
WRITING CREDITS: Bryan Chang
GENRE: Action, Horror, Crime, Drama
CAST: Kent Cheng, Sui Wah Fok, Danny Lee
COUNTRY: Hong Kong
RUNTIME: 90 min
RATING: 7/10
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