On His Majesty's Secret Service (DVD) (US Version) DVD Region All
Sandra Ng (Actor)
| Louis Koo (Actor)
| Barbie Hsu (Actor)
| Fan Siu Wong
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December 27, 2009
This customer review refers to On His Majesty's Secret Service (DVD) (2-Disc Edition) (Hong Kong Version)
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December 27, 2009
This customer review refers to On His Majesty's Secret Service (DVD) (2-Disc Edition) (Hong Kong Version)
average at best.
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Wong jing is not my favourite director but he has done some good films that have raised a few chuckles, this film here is just pushing average with minor entertainment value. thankfully it was not as awful as kung fu sweetheart and kungfu mahjong 3 but that is not saying much. Comedy wise louis koo does a decent job in his role but again he is not at his best especially when he is required to pull faces at the screen. this is your typical mou-lei-tou film with nothing really to shout home about. it is the co-stars that annoy though they are constantly mugging the screen with less than funny scenarios to play off. The action is also very average and does not bringing anything new to the screen even with martial arts star fan siu wong as the villain which is dissappointing. that pretty much somes up the film which is pretty much average all round, borrowing elements from his previous efforts. with the only reason why i am rating it a 3 star is because i purchased this along with kungfu cyborg which was appalling, the worst film in this current generation. |
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Kevin Kennedy
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October 26, 2009
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October 26, 2009
Relentless comic chaos
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In "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", Louis Koo stars as Royal Dog, one of the elite troops task with guarding the Emperor and Empress. Royal Dog, however, has no martial arts skills to speak of; instead, he is an inventor of wacky contraptions employed in the defense of the royal family. His overeager fiancee Faithful (Barbie Hsu) grows impatient with her absent-minded beau; she then goes ga-ga over a cross-dressing undercover assassin (Liu Yang) whom all the women in the palace find irresistible. Throw in the evil schemes of eunuch Lord Unicorn (Fan Siu Wong) to overthrow the emperor, an absurd contest to win the hand of Princess Rainbow (Song Jia), and the comic chaos generated by the goofy emperor (Liu Yiwei) and the abrasive empress (Sandra Ng) and you have all of the makings of a hilarious Stephen Chow movie from the 1990s. Louis Koo is no Stephen Chow. He seems to labor over comic bits that Chow could toss off with ease. But Koo does his level best and is ably supported by a solid cast and some genuinely funny sight gags. The costuming and set design are lavish and the martial arts on display here are sometimes spectacular. For better or worse, this is a Wong Jing movie. Its story is a bit chaotic, it doesn't really add up to much, and at least half of the jokes fall flat. Nonetheless, the movie's non-stop comic mayhem yields enough laughs to make "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" worth watching. |
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