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Two misfit convict (Yang Sze and Jason Pai Pao, who both also produced this film) gets out of prison only if they become a lawman in a town full of corruption. Several funny scene including a comical music video highlights this slightly diffrent kung-fu film. Sze, known for playing a Bruce Lee villian in ENTER THE DRAGON directs something diffrent here compare to most Kung-fu film. He also has a diffrent looks, as if he was trying to do a career change. Pao, who was last lead in THE BLACK DRAGON is also good. Recommended to Kung-fu fans.

By far thee most hilarious, cracked-out kung-fu movie I have EVER seen!!! I am really sad so few people have ever heard of it; this is pure gold!!

Basically, this is a western gangster movie adapted to a rural Chinese kung-fu setting. VERY rural! These two misfits get out of jail by being "volunteered" to "sheriff" some middle-of nowhere podunk town. The town turns out to be completely run by local gangsters, and much back-stabbing and double-crossing ensues.

But this is a comedy! A really ballsey, absurd comedy! And not only that, but as far as I can tell, there is such a reliance on puns and obscure cultural references that didn't translate through to the English dub (and the dub acting is really bizarre/great as well!), that you'll be screaming WTF all the way through the movie!) really, there is some CRAZY stuff in this movie what makes no sense, unless maybe if you are Chinese? Don't expect to have any idea what is going on until you've seen it quite a few times, and even then, some bits are just inexplicable (the hand game? 426? the oranges!?!)

And to top it ALL off, this thing is actually CHOCK FULL OF SOME GREAT KUNG-FU! And it's kinda long, at that! Sure, much of it is totally ridiculous, but the execution and choreography of it all is really quite tight! And where else do you get to see _Yang Sze_ whooping ash with a chair? Crutches? Sandals!? A freakin wok!?!

Still, the story itself is even interesting. An archetypal, fable-like tale of the big dumb brute teaming up with the smart, witty, irreverent trickster to cause tons of mischief.)

Gloriously absurd and discordian to it's fullest.)

This movie opens with the premise that if a new sheriff is needed you select two prisoners and give them the job with a reminder not to run off. Captain Obvious says "Realism will not be necessary". They steal a blind guys wagon but in the next scene they are attacked while walking separately. Next they arrive at a brothel and meet Eric Tsang in drag. Bolo wants the ugliest woman in the brothel.

At about this point I gave up trying to summarize what was happening. The scenes were so incoherent it would take longer to describe what was happening than it would take to watch and in either case you still wouldn't understand it.

The fights were also impossible to describe. They were not fighting but what was that? I just can't explain the arms flapping around and the legs moving.

There is no story to the point where whatever is happening at any moment turns into something unrelated in the next minute. Yet still I kept watching because they were still in a brothel and girls and perhaps bare breasts. Since spoilers are forbidden I cannot say what I saw.

Since I cannot explain nor summarize this movie I also cannot review this movie nor rate it nor recommend it.

By the time this was made, Bolo already had done dozens of the 100+ acting gigs on his resume. In this debut as director, he seemingly lost his way. Incoherent plot, with transitions so wrenching at least some of the discordance must have come from edits for Western markets. Many movements (especially a lot of arms flailing in random directions, nearly a zip code away from any opponent) during the fights that were usually the main appeal of these flicks were just plain bizarre, even for chopsocky comedies of that era.

Bolo only had one more directing credit. This shows why he belonged IN FRONT of the camera (where he was an absolute Rock Star), and NOT behind it. Look elsewhere for your Bolo fix.

Everything is wrong about this film. I was curious because of the relatively high (6,2) rating and some good user reviews. I like old school kung fu movies. This one unfortunately falls apart. Poor acting. Poor sound effects. Jokes are not even funny. The story is weak too... Don't waste your time watching this one.