Lets Go! (film)
5.8 /10 1 Votes
Director Wong Ching-po Duration Language Cantonese | 5.6/10 IMDb Music director Raymond Wong Genres Drama, Chinese Movies Country Hong Kong | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cast Juno Mak , Stephy Tang , Gordon Lam Ka-Tung Release date 10 November 2011 (2011-11-10) Writer Simon Lai, Pak-wing Yan Similar movies Related Wong Ching-po movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lets Go! is a 2011 Hong Kong action film directed by Wong Ching-po. It screened at the 2011 Hong Kong Asian Film Festival.
Let’s Go! Where? To see the new Wong Ching-Po movie! Stop the presses, because Wong Ching-Po, the director behind overrated triad thriller Jiang Hu, overwrought exploitation flick Revenge a Love Story and simply awful gang drama Ah Sou has made a good film. At least Let’s Go! is entertaining and better than Wong’s most recent efforts, and uses his pretentious filmmaking style in an unexpectedly funny and subversive way. Wong Ching-Po is a decidedly serious director and Let’s Go! is a categorically silly movie. Combine those two logically opposed factors and the resulting product is a strange and also fun flick that simultaneously reveres and sends up the tokusatsu (live-action Japanese superhero) genre. There’s an acquired taste to this sort of thing, but those inclined should be tickled.
Plot
Siu Sheung (Juno Mak) is a solitary and frustrated young man. He works as a delivery boy at a small noodle shop and lives with his mother (Pat Ha) in a large, dilapidated Kowloon housing estate. As a young boy he enjoyed nothing more than watching his favourite anime, Space Emperor God Sigma, and singing along to Leslie Cheungs theme song with his father. However, after seeing his dad shot dead trying to apprehend a bank robber, Siu Sheung has spent the last twenty years wandering aimlessly, looking for a way to bring justice back to the community.
A local gangster, Shing (Gordon Lam), impressed by Siu Sheungs fighting skills, recruits him into his gang, part of the impressive Matsumoto syndicate, run by Boss Hon Yu (Jimmy Wang Yu). Desperate for the money, Siu Sheung takes the job and soon finds himself working as personal bodyguard to Hon Yus beautiful yet feisty daughter, Annie (Stephy Tang). When Shing embarks on a violent coup to overthrow Hon Yu, Siu Sheung is forced into action, not only to protect Annie, but to defeat evil and restore peace and harmony to the community.
References
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