Showing posts with label Michael Chow Man-Kin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michael Chow Man-Kin. Show all posts

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Movie Review: 9th September

At Gweilo's Guide, we celebrate what makes Chinese movies weird and fresh and unusual from the gweilo's perspective.  Random, nonsensical film-making strategies are a big part of the fun here.  That's the whole point of the WTF meter. 
The Gweilo's Movie Ratings for 9th September
The Chinese movie review continues below this info box!
Category Rating
WTF Meter 5 out of 5
MST3K-Ability 3 out of 5
OVERALL QUALITY 1.5 out of 5
Chinese Movie 9th September

Director Lam Chin Wai
Actors Michael Chow Man-Kin, Simon Loui Yu-Yeung, Anita Lee Yuen-Wa
Year 2000
Format Viewed VCD (Universe VCD 2259)

However, as any B-movie fan will tell you, the weirdness can pile up to a point where it stops being amusingly weird, and it starts being just weird weird, in a bad way.  A movie can get random to the point where it’s difficult to make any sense of it at all.  9th September boldly pushes past this boundary within the first few minutes of the film without even breaking a sweat.  In fact, 9th September sets out to discover if there's an even farther boundary, where the accumulated weirdness hits a kind of critical mass, and turns good again.