Run and Kill (1993)

Purely Joyful Movie!

good back-story, and good acting

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

"Fight! Fight! Between the heavy and the light! The light don't win, we all jump in!" I'll never forget that chant. When I was young and whenever there was a height/weight disadvantage someone would begin chanting this. It was never really a serious threat, since the chant would make the bigger person almost always not try as hard, and usually making the fight into a tie. Why did I think of this? Because in this movie, you're rooting for the fat guy! Sure I've rooted for a fat guy before...maybe in a WWF or MMA match, but not in a flick I don't think. Upp, I did want Lardass in Stand By Me to get revenge. But in a violent, gritty, next-move-could-be-fatal type of way, never. Until now! Go Fatty! Run and Kill starts off with a guy named "Fatty" accidentally putting a "hit" on his wife. His wife cheated on him, so he went to the club got really drunk and started slurring around the wrong people. Well, what follows is a some of the worst luck a guy can go through. Run and Kill started off well with good character development, but then strayed off a little bit during the middle when Fatty was getting into more heat. Which is weird, you'd think it'd get more interesting. Not really. More characters were introduced at a fast rate, including the villain of the movie, but it all felt kinda jumbled and rushed. Truthfully, one moment I was watching Fatty do something with the cops, then suddenly I was watching a warehouse scene where guys were shooting at each other. Im still a tad confused if it was either Cops vs. Bad Guys or two warring groups. Anyways, that doesn't matter. What matters is what went on during the final 20 minutes.Run and Kill is another CATIII goodie from the director Billy Tang. Now seeing three of his movies, I can now easily pick his style from a group. That upward camera view close up on the bad guy. Nice stuff when looking for a menacing, insane look. The actors were all pretty good as well, especially Fatty and the Villain. Overall, Run and Kill was a pretty fun watch. It delivered the goods with acting, violence and camera work, but was kinda average with the story-telling. I enjoyed the story of revenge, the beginning and the end, but the middle not so much. Though I do recommend it to CATIII lovers out there.

Propane gas shop owner Cheung(Kent Cheng)lives a happy life until the day he finds his wife(Lily Lee)having sex with one of his workers.He simply walks away and goes out to get drunk at a city bar.In his drunken state he accidentally enlists a Vietnamese gang to murder his wife,an event that is just the beginning of a downward spiral into hell.Without enough money to pay for the fulfilled task,he takes refuge to the Mainland where he hopes a gang will help him solve the conflict between him and the Vietnamese.Amongst that Mainland gang is Ching Fung(Simon Yam from "Dr.Lamb")who is about to make Cheung's life an even bigger living hell..."Run and Kill" is one hell of a dark and violent film.The execution of a small daughter of Fatty,which involves lots of rope and gasoline is among the most sadistic child murders I have ever seen on screen.Simon Yam is simply amazing as a merciless psychopath as is Kent Cheng.Overall,"Run and Kill" is a classic of HK Cat.III cinema.You can't go wrong with this brutal and evil film.8 out of 10.

Run and Kill (1993) has to be one of the most disturbing and twisted films that was ever made (and that's saying something about category III films). A police procedural film that like most of the films based in this genre was taken from a true life crime. This is tied with Billy Tang's other rough rides RED TO KILL and Dr. Lamb as one of the grimmest films of the category III films.Fatty is a happy family man's (Kent Cheung) who's life is ruined one day when he discover's his wife sleeping with one of his co-workers. Instead of being a man about it, he get's plastered and meets a bar girl (Esther Kwan). He tells her his problem and asks him if he wants to meet someone who'll take care of it. Not in the soberest of moods, he makes a deal to have his wife murdered. The next morning, Fatty wakes up in an alley with a nasty hangover. Staggering home, he sees his wife and lover being murdered in their bed. The murderers want their money. But he can't pay them, so they burn down his business and threaten his family.Desperate to rectify his current situation, he calls on his mainland friend for help. He finds out that the murderers are Vietnamese refugees and their camp is located in the outskirts of the New Territories. Fatty and his mainland friends storm the camp and demand to speak to the leader. The kid asks them to forget the debt. They reply by killing the kid's friends and torturing him. The refugees turn him into a living tap and one of the goons drinks his blood. Outside the camp, the kid's crazy brother Fung (Simon Yam) and his crew raid the camp and slaughter everyone. He rescues his brother, Fatty and the bar girl. But Fung sees the condition that his young sibling is in and vows to make Fatty's life a living hell if he dies. During the escape, the kid brother dies. Enraged, Fung promises to keep his word.With nowhere to turn to, Fatty turns to Inspector Lee (Danny Lee) for help. Fung is in Hong Kong and on the prowl. It doesn't take him long to find Fatty's mother's house. Inside is his daughter and mother. Fung without hesitation tosses Fatty's mother out the window and takes Fatty and his daughter as hostages. Hours later, Fung, Fatty and the little girl are inside a warehouse. Fung has tied up the girl and douses her in gasoline. Fatty has a front row seat. No longer having a sane thought in his head, Fung turns the little girl into a bonfire. After the fire dies out, he grabs the girl's corpse and mimics her voice. Fung places the burnt husk in front of Fatty who also loses his mind.Fung's crew is becoming tired of his psychotic behavior. The boss Melvin (Melvin Wong) tries to put him in his place. Too late for that, Fung in a state of rage kills his fellow gang members and wants to make Fatty suffer even more. He calls him out and Fatty answers. The two psychos begin to have the best one-on-one fight scene I have ever witnessed. Fatty and Fung beat, burn and bust each other senseless. Fatty blows up, shoots and stabs Fung several times until he doesn't move anymore. The police finally arrive, the bar girl tries to comfort Fatty but he's left in a gibbering catatonic state. Inspector Lee looks at the mess. Just another case for the files.Highly recommended.

This Billy Tang vehicle is relentlessly grim and relentlessly entertaining. I love that.Fatty (Kent Chang) accidentally orders a hit on his wife and creates a huge debt for himself that must be repaid. Since Fatty can not repay it, others repay it instead -- with their lives.Watching a fat guy stress and sweat and fall in a blubbering heap is a highly entertaining experience that must be seen to be believed. The torching of a little girl by super-villain Simon Yam (in a superbly over-the-top performance) pushes the boundaries of on-screen depictions and the gloriously violent finale, where Fatty becomes an unstoppable monster, really delivers the chills.Danny Lee makes an appearance as -- what else? -- a cop, but he's as useful as pockets on a singlet and never manages to put so much as a dent in the gory proceedings.Director Tang was on a roll with this, RED TO KILL and DR. LAMB.This is mostly an action pic, but it also falls into the horror category simply because it doesn't know when to quit being grotesque. Love that, too.