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Information
- A.k.a.
- Knockabout
- Year
- 1979
- Runtime
- 92 min.
- Director
- Sammo Kam-Bo Hung
- Genres
- Action, Drama, Comedy
- Rating *
- 7.4
- Votes *
- 956
- Checks
- 112
- Favs
- 7
- Dislikes
- 0
- Favs/checks
- 6.3% (1:16)
- Favs/dislikes
- 7:0
Top comments
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Siskoid
Sammo Hung's Knockabout, a comedy kung fu vehicle for Yuen Biao, is about a pair of con men getting into trouble, cheating people and often getting cheated themselves. After getting clobbered one time too many, they become students to a master who may not be on the up and up. As the movie progresses, silly Cantonese comedy gives way to more and more intense action, which is entertaining all the way through for both reasons, but isn't really balanced correctly. You may become tired of each element in its respective section. So while this is a perfectly good comedy kung fu film in the Sammo/Jackie/Yuen tradition, the DVD has a major technical flaw. There's a relatively long section where the subtitles are out of synch with the action, and intermittently, they disappear altogether. Given that there's no English track to rely on, only Mandarin and Cantonese, it turns some scenes into gibberish. Of course, if you've seen a lot of kung fu films, you can pretty much guess what's going on and you'd be right. Still, bit of a headache. 8 years 10 months ago