Review of All for the Winner (1990) by Tsz Yeung Yvonne P — 07 Sep 2009

Probably one of the most important Stephen Chow films in his career, for this is pretty much the first comedy Chow, who started with an extra and very small roles, did. Also in terms of how fine his gags are, this is good one.

The combination with Man-Tat Ng, which we see in a lot of Chow's later works, is already excellent here (can say even the best). What is not to be forgotten is that this is a very early film by Jeffrey Lau and Corey Yuen, who release several creative and interesting action films later in their long-term collaboration (They both are in the film, too).

This films was made as a parody of Yun-Fat Chow's "God of Gamblers" (1989), but Stephen Chow's character was selected to appear in the second of "God of Gamblers" series as one of the main characters, since his job and this film was very successful.

This one's definitely enjoyable.