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FIGHT
BACK TO SCHOOL 3
AKA:
Fight Back To School III
Year:
1993 Reviewer: Phil
Mills
Officer
Sing Sing (Chow) is called in when a man is murdered with an
ice pick during sexual intercourse. By an uncanny
coincidence the man looks identical to Sing so the decision is
made to send him in as an undercover. In the same day,
he finds himself with a beautiful wife (Anita Mui), an
incompetent sidekick (Natalis Chan) and one very unhappy
girlfriend (Cheung Man). All this and somehow he still
has to try and solve the case!
'Fight
Back To School 3' has to be the poorest of the series, lacking
real continuity from the other films. No attempt
is made to connect it to it's predecessors and the whole film
suffers with a general lack of direction. Subsequently,
it came as no surprise to me to learn that Wong Jing took over
the reigns for (and scripted) this film as all the signs are
there; the teeth-grindingly irritating comedy, cheap gambling
scenes and attempted cash-in on a successful movie/s.
Without
director Gordon Chan's influence or sidekick Ng Man Tat, Chow
finds himself in a comedy that has very little going for it
besides the stars themselves. There is nothing wrong
with the acting talent involved as both Mui and Chan are
established stars in their own rights but, with a bad script
and even worse comedy routines, nobody would be able to save
it.
This
is one for the die-hard Stephen Chow fans or (god forbid) Wong
Jing enthusiasts only.
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