Tragic hero

When I sat down in 2021 to watch the 1987 Hong Kong action crime drama "Gong woo ching" (aka "Rich and Famous"), I must admit that I was expecting somewhat more from writers Stephen Shiu and Manfred Wong, especially since the movie had the likes of Andy Lau and Chow Yun-Fat on the cast list.

The storyline told in the movie, as written by Stephen Shiu and Manfred Wong, just failed to capture my interest, and the movie felt very chaotic and disharmonic. I must admit that most of the time I wasn't really sure why the narrative was at that particular point or place in the story.

Now, you would expect that a movie with the likes of Chow Yun-Fat, Andy Lau and Carina Lau on the cast list, that you would be in for something grander. But the movie turned out to be rather boring and mundane for my liking. So "Rich and Famous" made for a pretty lousy movie experience for me.

I managed to endure halfway through the ordeal, then I just gave up on the storyline, given the fact that it never appealed to me, and I was bored throughout the prolonged first part of the movie. So I just simply quit on the movie, never to return to watch the rest.

I am rating "Rich and Famous" a three out of ten stars. This was by no means a glorious or outstanding moment in Hong Kong cinematic history.