Laughing Gor – Qian Zui Fan (2011)

Laughing Gor – Qian Zui Fan: Directed by Herman Yau. With Michael Tse, Francis Ng, Chapman To, Bosco Wong. Laughing is judged guilty of murdering gang lord Michael So and is sentenced to life imprisonment. Locked up behind bars, he meets the seemingly benign inmate Fok Tin Yam, a university professor in criminal psychology who is jailed for drug possession. Highly intelligent and manipulative, Fok reveals the power of his mind games by effortlessly subduing the violent prison bully. He also deduces that Laughing is sent to the prison on an undercover mission to find out the rogue cops within the police force. The clues lead him to inmate Chit, a former sergeant from the Narcotics Bureau who has been suffering from a mental disorder. To unlock the critical information from the deranged man, Laughing must get the help of Fok, but this enigmatic figure has an agenda of his own.

“As much as I enjoy Hong Kong cinema and as much as I enjoy movies that Francis Ng are in, then u0026quot;Laughing Goru0026quot; (aka u0026quot;Turning Point 2u0026quot;) was somewhat of a disappointing experience. The movie simply tried to bite off too big a piece and failed miserably.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eDirector Herman Yau tries to take a handful of different aspects of story lines and put it together into a single story, but the end result is confusing and, well bluntly put, terrible. There is no red thread throughout the movie, it is all just mostly bits and pieces of various story lines and information, that really doesnu0026#39;t add up to a whole greater wholesome image.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThere were too many characters to keep track of, and most of them were superficial characters that really didnu0026#39;t have much time on the screen, but still played a rather important part of this confusing storyline.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe story is about an undercover police officer whose identity gets erased when the only police officer familiar with his undercover identity in the prison dies. But it is also the story of a psychologist who tries to mobilize a revolution against the legal system. And the story of a wronged bride-to-be who seeks only to be with her deceased husband, and projects his image onto her doctor.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBut the storyline mix up doesnu0026#39;t end there, as there are far many other aspects to the story, that just takes the mold of the storyline and mashes it up until it has become incomprehensible soup.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOne of the better things to this movie, is that there is a fair amount of popular Hong Kong stars in the movie. So that should count for something at least.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eu0026quot;Laughing Goru0026quot; was a rather disappointing addition to the Hong Kong cinema, and only Francis Ngu0026#39;s performance made it possible to sit through the entire movie.”