Interesteg What makes it different from others?

DipitySkillful an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

lee_hkfan RUN AND KILL (1993) - When returning home from work one day, Cheung (Kent Cheng) finds his wife having sex with the local grocer. In a state of shock, Cheung walks out and ends up at a sleazy bar to drown his sorrows. Having one too many, he unintentionally hires a local gangster to kill his wife. When he comes home the following day, men attack and kill his wife and her lover, leaving him in the frame for the murders. Cheung doesn't remember hiring the men but is soon reminded when they come calling for the rest of the money.Fleeing his apartment, Cheung hides out at the old family home in china, only to find his old neighbour and a group of professional killers held up there. The neighbour agrees to help Cheung with his trouble back home but proves to be a fatal mistake, leading to events that are far worse than he could imagine.Run and Kill is a bleak and gloomy CAT III classic from the 90's starring Kent Cheng as the extremely unlucky fatty Cheung who inadvertently runs into Simon Yam's psychopathic ex war veteran character, played here with his usual great charm. I did find Kent Cheng kind of annoying at first, and Danny Lee barely even has a role in the movie but still, Run and Kill deserves it's place as one of the CAT 3 classics from this period in HK cinema. Not wanting to spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it but ending is worth watching the film for that scene alone, even if the dummy corpse looks more like a statue of a monkey!

lastliberal Fatty (Kent Cheng) catches his wife (Lily Li) with another man; on their anniversary, no less. He gets drunk and hires a hit man to take care of her; only there is a slight miscommunication over what he wants.Now, the gang leader (Lung Wei Wang) wants $800,000 for the job they did. Lots of chop socky and blood is spilled in the attempt to collect. Rival gangs get involved and the blood flows freely.When Ching Fung's (Simon Yam) brother Wah (Sui Wah Fok) dies, he vows revenge on Fatty and his family. Fung tortures Fatty in the worst possible way and even kills his own partners as he goes psychotic after Fatty escapes.He and fatty have a fight to the death. It was magnificent.

Joseph P. Ulibas Run and Kill (1993) has to be one of the most disturbing and twisted films that was ever made (and that's saying something about category III films). A police procedural film that like most of the films based in this genre was taken from a true life crime. This is tied with Billy Tang's other rough rides RED TO KILL and Dr. Lamb as one of the grimmest films of the category III films.Fatty is a happy family man's (Kent Cheung) who's life is ruined one day when he discover's his wife sleeping with one of his co-workers. Instead of being a man about it, he get's plastered and meets a bar girl (Esther Kwan). He tells her his problem and asks him if he wants to meet someone who'll take care of it. Not in the soberest of moods, he makes a deal to have his wife murdered. The next morning, Fatty wakes up in an alley with a nasty hangover. Staggering home, he sees his wife and lover being murdered in their bed. The murderers want their money. But he can't pay them, so they burn down his business and threaten his family.Desperate to rectify his current situation, he calls on his mainland friend for help. He finds out that the murderers are Vietnamese refugees and their camp is located in the outskirts of the New Territories. Fatty and his mainland friends storm the camp and demand to speak to the leader. The kid asks them to forget the debt. They reply by killing the kid's friends and torturing him. The refugees turn him into a living tap and one of the goons drinks his blood. Outside the camp, the kid's crazy brother Fung (Simon Yam) and his crew raid the camp and slaughter everyone. He rescues his brother, Fatty and the bar girl. But Fung sees the condition that his young sibling is in and vows to make Fatty's life a living hell if he dies. During the escape, the kid brother dies. Enraged, Fung promises to keep his word.With nowhere to turn to, Fatty turns to Inspector Lee (Danny Lee) for help. Fung is in Hong Kong and on the prowl. It doesn't take him long to find Fatty's mother's house. Inside is his daughter and mother. Fung without hesitation tosses Fatty's mother out the window and takes Fatty and his daughter as hostages. Hours later, Fung, Fatty and the little girl are inside a warehouse. Fung has tied up the girl and douses her in gasoline. Fatty has a front row seat. No longer having a sane thought in his head, Fung turns the little girl into a bonfire. After the fire dies out, he grabs the girl's corpse and mimics her voice. Fung places the burnt husk in front of Fatty who also loses his mind.Fung's crew is becoming tired of his psychotic behavior. The boss Melvin (Melvin Wong) tries to put him in his place. Too late for that, Fung in a state of rage kills his fellow gang members and wants to make Fatty suffer even more. He calls him out and Fatty answers. The two psychos begin to have the best one-on-one fight scene I have ever witnessed. Fatty and Fung beat, burn and bust each other senseless. Fatty blows up, shoots and stabs Fung several times until he doesn't move anymore. The police finally arrive, the bar girl tries to comfort Fatty but he's left in a gibbering catatonic state. Inspector Lee looks at the mess. Just another case for the files.Highly recommended.

fertilecelluloid This Billy Tang vehicle is relentlessly grim and relentlessly entertaining. I love that.Fatty (Kent Chang) accidentally orders a hit on his wife and creates a huge debt for himself that must be repaid. Since Fatty can not repay it, others repay it instead -- with their lives.Watching a fat guy stress and sweat and fall in a blubbering heap is a highly entertaining experience that must be seen to be believed. The torching of a little girl by super-villain Simon Yam (in a superbly over-the-top performance) pushes the boundaries of on-screen depictions and the gloriously violent finale, where Fatty becomes an unstoppable monster, really delivers the chills.Danny Lee makes an appearance as -- what else? -- a cop, but he's as useful as pockets on a singlet and never manages to put so much as a dent in the gory proceedings.Director Tang was on a roll with this, RED TO KILL and DR. LAMB.This is mostly an action pic, but it also falls into the horror category simply because it doesn't know when to quit being grotesque. Love that, too.