Apparently continuing with the movies before he was a star...well, that's mostly because that all that's left of his filmography that I haven't watched, lol. Anyway, this was effectively Stephen Chow's first film, and as such, it's not a comedy, but rather the tried-and-true cops vs robbers story. Chow plays a car thief who gets mixed up with some violent bank robbers. Then he gets caught by Danny Lee's maverick cop character. Danny Lee wants to use him as a snitch to get to the robbers, but instead he effectively gets Chow framed for murder while going behind the back of his irritating superior.

That is...essentially the plot. Just add the inevitable showdown and trick ending. As for the other stuff, to me, it seemed like Danny Lee's character was terribly inept. And I still haven't decided if that was on purpose, if they were trying to be funny, or what. Stephen Chow, on the other hand, was awfully good as a punk in way over his head. He was equal parts false bravado and scared kid, but undeniably good at stealing cars. As Love HK Film put it, he possesses a range here that everyone forgot he had. Actually, it's getting easier and easier for me to say that he's just a damn good actor. He has so much charisma and is so expressive, that he can easily make you believe whatever it is he's playing. How else could he get audiences to suspend their disbelief for 10+ years of nonsense comedy?

Yeah, all these early movies WITH Stephen Chow (as opposed to Stephen Chow movies) just make me more and more convinced of what a legend he is.

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