![]() It takes them about ten minutes to figure out the scam (something silly involving reflective watch faces) and everything seems cool. They get invited to a Las Vegas casino to help shut down a ring of Japanese Yakuza who are cheating and breaking the bank. There are a couple of good gambling scenes (Wong's favorite to direct) but there's little else of interest in this film.Īndy Lau and Alan Tam play a gambling/con artist duo, supposedly the best in Asia (and, thinking about it, this would probably be true, since they seem to have the ultimate "poker faces," never changing expression throughout the movie). It's widely recognized as the beginnings of the modern gambling movie genre, which is still going to this day (at last count, Wong himself had had a part in about 30-40 of these types of movies). ![]() ![]() Wong Jing's movies may be a lot of things - at times they can be stupid, incoherent, infantile, or a number of other negative adjectives - but they're usually not boring.
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