Just watched this film last night for the first time and I was greatly disappointed by what I just saw. My Lucky Stars is a sequel that came after the big hit, "Winners and Sinners" My Lucky Stars was only to begin an entire span of uncreative movies that don't understand movie directing. The story itself was mostly comedians doing little jokes throughout this film.
My Lucky Stars is about a cop named Muscles (Jackie Chan) who loses his partner (Yuen Biao) at the fair while trying to expose some Japanese gangster's lair. The cops eventually decided to call out the disastrous groups of people who were criminals but they have to use them since they think they're the only ones that the gangsters don't know. (Except the gangsters don't know everyone else) So they pick out a few specific people and when I mean specific I meant, 61, Blockhead, Sandy, Herb, and Rawhide. These people are specifically chosen to find the cop's partner in the Japanese lair and just save him and not expose the entire gang whatsoever.
The story is thin, mediocre, and unimportant to the director's intention. The director most of the time felt absent as our main characters make their own jokes up onto the screen and I do admit, they can be pretty funny but at the same time, the director is missing many important ideas for a movie. For a movie should not be entirely ran upon jokes but each scene should rather hold an importance in moving the story forward. If the scene is unimportant, delete it. The story only takes up 1/3 of this movie and the jokes are 2/3 of this movie. The story is also stupid for the fact that it's only about saving some undercover cop instead of exposing a big underground gang that does bad stuff. (That we have no idea what they do.) Nothing really makes up that big hole in this film and the only thing the director does is blind us with it's stunning visual colors. The colors are aesthetic but that's the 80s. Don't get this for the blu ray is one thing for sure. Even if the transfer is great, the movie itself is lousy. Unless if you like bad but hilarious comedies, I'm leaving the choice on you.
My Lucky Stars is about a cop named Muscles (Jackie Chan) who loses his partner (Yuen Biao) at the fair while trying to expose some Japanese gangster's lair. The cops eventually decided to call out the disastrous groups of people who were criminals but they have to use them since they think they're the only ones that the gangsters don't know. (Except the gangsters don't know everyone else) So they pick out a few specific people and when I mean specific I meant, 61, Blockhead, Sandy, Herb, and Rawhide. These people are specifically chosen to find the cop's partner in the Japanese lair and just save him and not expose the entire gang whatsoever.
The story is thin, mediocre, and unimportant to the director's intention. The director most of the time felt absent as our main characters make their own jokes up onto the screen and I do admit, they can be pretty funny but at the same time, the director is missing many important ideas for a movie. For a movie should not be entirely ran upon jokes but each scene should rather hold an importance in moving the story forward. If the scene is unimportant, delete it. The story only takes up 1/3 of this movie and the jokes are 2/3 of this movie. The story is also stupid for the fact that it's only about saving some undercover cop instead of exposing a big underground gang that does bad stuff. (That we have no idea what they do.) Nothing really makes up that big hole in this film and the only thing the director does is blind us with it's stunning visual colors. The colors are aesthetic but that's the 80s. Don't get this for the blu ray is one thing for sure. Even if the transfer is great, the movie itself is lousy. Unless if you like bad but hilarious comedies, I'm leaving the choice on you.