Pink Bomb
Director: Derek Chiu Sung-kei
Year: 1993
Rating: 6.5
For some reason I
was expecting a wild over the top 'girls with guns' bloodfest, but this
turned out to be a very mild comedic effort with a little bit of action
thrown in. It is not a particularly well made film – but it has a charm
that I somewhat enjoyed. After a while I stopped worrying about the lack
of gunplay and just got into the swing of this fun, silly little film.
Waise Lee is
a tour leader and he is organizing his little group of five clients to go
on a tour of Thailand. To better get to know one another, he asks them to
stand up and tell an embarrassing story about themselves. I would describe
his own as being a little more than just embarrassing. He is a Christian,
he relates, and when he was baptized his fear of water made him panic and
he accidentally drowned the minister. This is all shown in a flashback. Not
exactly the kind of story I would tell about myself to a group of people
that you are taking on a tour! But it sets the mood for this film.
The tour members
are Cynthia Khan – a traffic cop trying out for the Olympics, Loletta Lee
– a teacher, Fennie Yuen – a cosmetician, Lau Ching-Wan – a taxi driver with
a Travis Bickle complex and finally Dayo Wong who is very depressed because
his triad has just kicked him out for being too darn nice.
Off this crazy crew goes to Thailand where
in Bangkok they immediately bump into a Thai prostitute – the adorable Gloria
Yip – who claims to be a virgin for sale. Later some guy takes her up on it,
but the whole thing is a scam as her partner disguised as a cop breaks into
the room and accuses the guy of having sex with a 14-year old. Wrong guy
to pull the stunt on. He turns out to be some bad guy with a suitcase full
of phony money. The tour group gets involved in the ensuing fracas and in
the outcome little Gloria ends up with all the money. She talks the group
into taking her along to see her mother and to get away from this “bad life”.
They are all unaware that she is sitting on mobster's money. In no time, the bad guys are chasing after them
from Pattaya to Chiang Mai. We get to see some Thai landmarks along the
way, but not a lot of action. Cynthia Khan does thankfully get to throw a
few punches and some leg kicks. It is really the goofy chemistry that develops
between the tour members that becomes the main pleasure of this film.
