Fun and Fury
Director: Frankie Chan
Year: 1991
Rating: 5.5
This Frankie Chan
helmed film has the look of having been knocked off fairly quickly as it
wanders around for the first hour in an aimless goofy daze before it settles
down with the action scenes that one expects from a Frankie Chan film. There
isn’t very much going on here, but it does have a solid cast.
Leon Lai is a Singaporean cop – and he has come to Hong Kong with his girlfriend,
Vivian Chow, to meet her father (Kent Cheng) who is a top triad figure. It
turns out that back in Singapore Leon caused the death of the brother of
White Tiger a vicious HK triad killer (played by Norman Tsui) and Kent Cheng
is afraid that White Tiger will take offense with him if he finds out that
his daughter is engaged to Leon. So he does everything he can to sabotage
the young lover’s relationship – even hiring Sharon Kwok (in an engaging
and sexy turn) to frame Leon as her lover.
The first hour of the film revolves around this rigmarole – the highlight
being a dance scene in which Leon and Vivian and also Frankie (who plays
Leon’s buddy) and Sharon show some nice dance steps in a disco. Finally,
in the last thirty minutes the action kicks in when White Tiger and his gwielo
minions kidnap Vivian and hold her hostage.
It is of course up to Leon and Frankie to get her back and this leads to
some enjoyable if not topnotch ruckuses between our heroes and Norman Tsui,
Kim Maree Penn and two other gwielos. At the very most this is a mild diversion
– and it does not contain the energy or intensity of some other Frankie Chan
productions such as Burning Ambition or Outlaw Brothers. I think that is
Vivian and Leon singing a duet during the end credits.
