Hahaha, red eye!

Netflix rocks for when you are stuck rocking the baby at weird hours of the night, and nothing is on TV.  I recently got a chance to check out Fatal Contact (黑拳) and it was a real shock to my system.  Beware of spoilers…

The Good

Ronald Cheng didn't get the V-neck memo

• I didn’t realize Wu Jing was the same guy who played the baton-baddy in SPL (I loved that fight, and it made up for Donnie Yen tossing Sammo Hung around).  The fighting was very good in Fatal Contact, and I really just watch these movies for the fight choreography anyway.
• When Kong Ko gave Siu Tin both fish cheeks, that’s when I knew it was love.
• I thought it was funny how they referenced Jet Li.
• The brutal butter knife fight was awesome!

The Bad

• The plot is so cliche and yet less engaging that that of most martial arts films.  There was surprisingly little tension until the end.
• ‘Captain’ Chan Shing never really taught Kong Ko anything except to be mean.
• The ending, while unexpected, was really unsatisfying (especially the conversation between Ko and Tin).
• None of the matches were very close.  Wu Jing’s character basically kicked the crap out of everyone easily.
• I was also mad when that bitchy waitress wouldn’t take the coupon because Siu Tin didn’t present it when ordering.  That is BS!

The Ugly

There be spoilers ahead!  Also, all these points really belong in a so bad they’re good category.

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So, like, how do you know so much about whores anyway?

• I didn’t even realize that Chui Chi was “Ada” at first.  The hilarious implication of this is that Kong Ko was working in a theater troop where all the women were whores!  So was prostitution their main job, or was it just their second job?
• Did the theater have to close because Ko left, or was the performance run just over?  If it had to close because of Ko, that would mean he denied Chi hotpot and forced her to sell her body to get by.  This makes it even funnier that Ko called Chi a skank when he saw her at the fight against the K-1 guy (plus Ko himself was pseudo-dating a whore).
• When Siu Tin was in the midst of her emo depression, I thought she had flopped into a hospital pool at first (I was a little groggy).  What kind of hospital doesn’t have guard rails?  Needless to say, I did not expect her to off herself.  WTF, Kong Ko just had a broken leg!  He wasn’t even that hurt, because he was still able to limp over and kill all the gangsters with a butter knife!
• All along I figured Tin had been a prostitute in the past.  Who knew she was still practicing!  The conversations between Chi and Tin were so odd at first, but made sense later.  It must have torn Tin up to see Chi being such a n00b.

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