All For the Winner (1990)

All For the Winner (1990)

Starring: Stephen Chow, Sandra Ng, Ng Man-Tat

Description: Sing (Stephen Chow), who is a Mainland bumpkin and has supernatural powers, is exploited by his streetwise uncle (Ng Man Tat) to sweep stakes in the casino and finally wins the champion in the tournament of the King of Gamblers.

Setting its background at social grass-roots class, this movie illustrates the desire of the common people to get rich without giving any efforts. This movie is a great joker with lots of japes, which also contains all the elements of various kinds of blockbusters. Comedy lovers should not miss this classic comedy of its time.

My Review: This is how Stephen Chow started his Hong Kong film career that made him famous in the 90s. He developed the so called trend "Nonsense", which many of the films in Hong Kong represented. Mainly the director Wong Jing that produced many of those films in recent year. I am a big fan of Stephen Chow, I've watched every single movie that he starred, produced, or directed. His nonsense of comedy was of the reasons I like Hong Kong movies besides the martial arts films that everybody watches. His movies may or may not have a plot depending on the movie, but it's really funny. He's able to make something from nothing and make it really funny. He's like the Jim Carey in the West or the Jerry Seinfeld that can talk about nonsense all day. This film was the start of the trend of producing many gambling movies that followed although Chow Yun Fat was the original God of Gambler. All for the Winner is quite entertaining and maybe one of the best gambling movie ever made in Hong Kong. There were many recent gambling films, but nothing is compared to this one because of the comic side provided by Stephen Chow. If there was one gambling movie to watch from Hong Kong, I would choose this over God of Gamblers. After this film, Stephen Chow continued his success with many other movie hits such as Fight Back to School 1-3, Royal Tramp 1 & 2, Shaolin Soccer, and the most recent film Kung Fu Hustle. This guy is the King of Comedy in the Hong Kong film industry.

Overall: 10 out of 10. It's funny and an excellent film to watch!