Du cheng feng yun III

I was so confused after watching this movie. Was I watching a robot-centric movie? Did I enter the wrong cinema? Or was this supposed to be Vegas to Macao 3 that was supposed to center around poker cards and gambling? Besides, the jokes and body gags in it was so atrociously forceful and unfunny I want to throw up. Yes, this is utterly disappointing considering how successful and funny the previous two movies of the series were. I fell asleep in between a movie for the first time in my life.

I would give a zero if I could. This has got to be the worst movie I've ever watched in my entire life. The whole movie is soulless, tasteless and detestable. I almost felt insulted after watching it. The producer and crew had no respect to their audience. The plot was empty and sloppy, the camera work was like a cheesy 80s TV show, the acting was amateur. One of the actors simply didn't have any facial expressions throughout the movie. I went in with low expectation but I was still stunned by how bad it was. They couldn't even get simple shootings done right. The few action scenes were badly shot and look completely unrealistic. Hidden ads are no longer hidden, they are dumped right to your face blatantly without any disguise. That is the most shameless "hidden ad" I've seen in movies. The movie producer really cared about nothing but making a cheap movie to roll in whatever money they can get. Shame on them!

I sat down to watch the 2016 movie "From Vegas to Macau III" (aka "Du cheng feng yun III") after having seen, and really enjoyed the 2014 and 2015 prequels. So I must admit that I was looking forward to watching writer Jing Wong's third movie to the franchise.

Well, this movie was by no account as entertaining as the previous two movies. Sure, it was watchable and entertaining enough for what it turned out to be. But it paled in comparison to "From Vegas to Macau" and "From Vegas to Macau II".

So what made this movie stand out from the other two previous movies? Well, the comedy aspect in this third movie was simply too much and overly done to the point where it became a nuisance to sit through. Whereas the previous two movies also had comedy in it, it was done in a less degree and much more subtle. Whereas "From Vegas to Macau III" was just crammed with comedy, most of which just made the movie feel childish and stupid, to be bluntly honest.

But I must say that it was nice to see such a great cast come together again for a third movie, with the likes of Yun-Fat Chow, Andy Lau and Carina Lau, to mention but a few.

It was a shame that directors Andrew Lau and Jing Wong failed to provide a movie that fully lived up to the level of the predecessors.

My rating of "From Vegas to Macau III" lands on less than mediocre four out of ten stars. This movie is good enough if you haven't seen the previous two movies in the franchise, or as a stand-alone movie. But for a third installment in the franchise, it was just dumbed down by way too much slapstick comedy which didn't really work in favor of the movie.

yes it have so many "STARS". From Chow Yun-Fat, Andy Lau, Nick Cheung to even PSY.

But the storyline is just painfully awful. Totally waste of money.

All the jokes are 70's/80's. Clearly the director and screenwriter are run out of creativity.

Those jokes are just too old. They are no longer funny at all.

And I don't think people who haven't watch the previous HK gambling movie series are able to get the joke.

Finally I think Chow Yun-Fat and Nick Cheung them have already did what they can do.

But the story and jokes were just unacceptable. That's why it only have a 1 star.

What a movie, gambler with starwars and others.. hahahaa