Once A Thief

Don't let the cool looking cover fool you, this movie makes Chow Yun-Fat almost looks like a dumbass... but it's still pretty fun to watch.

Leslie Cheung, Chow Yun-Fat and Cherie Chung are three orphan siblings who make a living by stealing artwork. However, when they were asked to steal a very valuable painting of a lady despite Cherie's insistent to quit, days start going wrong... but not too wrong because there's a happy ending.

This John Woo film is pretty smart and filled with full-blown action scenes the director is known for. But he should really stop doing comedies because some of the things he makes Chow Yu-Fat do is not only unfunny, but almost humiliating for the actor. The film has loves of gun actions and fight scene action and all other sorts of action, but they are all done in a near child-friendly violent because it seems that no many how many bullets are fired at the stars, they never get hit. Leslie got hit once, but it wasn't even near fatal.

All in all, this is a fun little movie to watch in a boring summer afternoon.

Year: 1991
Director: John Woo

6.5/10