Kung Fu (2004)
Genre: Action / Comedy
Duration: 95 minuten
Alternative titles: Kung Fu Hustle / 功夫
Country:
Hong-Kong / China
Directed by: Stephen Chow
Stars: Stephen Chow
IMDb score:
7,7 (162.888)
Releasedate: 10 February 2004
Kung Fu plot
"So many gangsters… so little time."
Canton, China, 1940s. Sing desperately wants to join Hong Kong's most notorious gangster gang, the 'Ax Gang', but he can't even wield a knife. Planning to expand the territory, the gang cast an eye on Pig's Sty Alley, a sacred street populated by an arsenal of eccentric characters. Some of them are even kung fu masters in disguise and when they give the gang members their heads, they hit back hard.
Actors and actresses
Sing
Landlord
Landlady
Sing's Sidekick
The Beast
Fong
Brother Sum
Tailor
Coolie
Axe Gang Vice General
Reviews & comments
Fisico
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- 10039 messages
- 5398 votes
Well, an over-the-top action film with an absurdly humorous approach, I did not expect that when I entered this film virgin white. So something went wrong for me. Not my favorite genre anyway. Some nice elements and scenes here and there, but overall too limited. The film is more like a parody and also feels quite cartoonish with things that you only encounter in cartoons. Nice to recognize some things here and there from other films.
The crazy situations - you can't really think of them yourself - naturally overshadow the plot so that I don't really know what it was really about. Well done all. You can't blame Chow for a lack of inventiveness, that's for sure!
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Sergio Leone
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- 4430 messages
- 3110 votes
Not my thing.
As a parody, this might not be so bad: it's as silly as can be. Nevertheless, the film barely entertains. The same silly things are repeated regularly and it also takes quite a long time before it all really kicks in. Despite a high pace, it therefore seems to be barely moving forward.
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Shadowed
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- 11421 messages
- 6719 votes
hmm.
The first Chow movie I've seen. Apparently a well-known figure, perhaps even iconic. Then it must be me that I had never heard of him, but then I delve a little less into Asian cinema. In any case, this is already the impression, although it is more just an impression than a good one.
Kung Fu is a film that builds very strongly on the comic (action) scenes, and they certainly make this film a whole that feels just a bit more peculiar. There are quite a few cartoonish influences thrown through the film that make it feel like a kind of children's film but aimed at adults. Nevertheless, the humor is so corny that I can't imagine that children don't get the fun they need from this.
Lots of slapstick and loud humor, it just didn't catch on. Chow tries almost desperately to make the viewer laugh, but in the end I found that large dose of nonsense mostly annoying. Perhaps it could have worked as dry humor. In this case, the jokes go on for too long so that you are eventually done smiling, but then you still have 3 minutes that belong to the same joke.
Fortunately, it is entertaining, also nicely set up. Many action scenes you will undoubtedly have never seen before and that seems to be something Chow tries to rely on. That ensures that Kung Fu never gets boring, on the other hand it is not a form of action that can be called cool due to the now very outdated CGI that is used.
Acting is nice, the only problem is that I don't find the large amount of characters that funny. All very silly and corny, but it didn't really catch on for a moment. Fortunately, there is enough happening to keep it running as a whole, otherwise I would have given up. Kung Fu is half worthy to me.
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