The legendary God of Gamblers can predict the outcome of dice by listening to them rattle in a cup; he never loses. His smugness is both awesome and outlandishly hilarious, which sets up a wonderful premise for Wong Jing’s action comedy. It’s bookended by John Woo style camera movements and action scenes that use Chow Yun-fat’s abilities perfectly, but the entire middle section, about half the film, is an awkward bonding comedy and it’s there that it loses momentum. It picks up the pace for the ending but fails to recover the same sense of majesty that it offered at the beginning.
3 individually wrapped chocolates out of 5
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