I sat down here in 2021 to watch the 1988 movie "The Peacock King" (aka "Hung cheuk wong ji") without ever having heard about the movie, much less knowing about its existence. But a chance presented itself for me to watch it, so of course I took the opportunity, especially with this being a Hong Kong movie.
Plus, the movie also had Biao Yuen on the cast list, so I thought that I would at least be sitting down to watch something adequately entertaining.
Turns out that "The Peacock King" wasn't particularly entertaining. Sure, it was watchable, but it was hardly an alluring movie, nor was it a particularly enjoyable movie.
The movie faltered with a less than mediocre storyline and having characters that were particularly bland - if not downright pointless at times. So it was hard to submerge myself fully into the story and enjoy it.
It should be said that the pacing of the movie was fair enough, but the storyline just didn't really bring enough contents to the table to make it full-out appealing and interesting.
If enjoy Hong Kong movie, then "The Peacock King" is not the best that the Hong Kong cinema has to offer. And taking the movie's age into consideration, then there are far more enjoyable movies from the late 1980s available.
My rating of "The Peacock King" lands on a less than mediocre four out of ten stars.
