Let the Bullets Fly

~ A comic western legend. ~

Overview:

When circumstances force an outlaw to impersonate a county governor and clean up a corrupt town, the Robin Hood figure finds himself in a showdown with the local godfather.

Director:

Jiang Wen

Status:

Released

Language:

Mandarin

Buget:

$0.00

Revenue:

$104,731,450.00

Key words:

china
satire
bandit
bandit gang

Cast

Jiang Wen

~ as ~

Pocky Zhang

Chow Yun-Fat

~ as ~

Huang Silang

Ge You

~ as ~

Old Tang

Carina Lau

~ as ~

Magistrate's wife

Shao Bing

~ as ~

The Second

Liao Fan

~ as ~

The Third

Du Yiheng

~ as ~

The Four

Li Jing

~ as ~

老五

Zhang Mo

~ as ~

The Six

Wei Xiao

~ as ~

老七

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Reviews (1)

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badelf
Written 2 year(s) ago
10
This movie might actually be my first Chinese spaghetti western. It's very funny and highly satirical, typical of Jiang Wen. At first, I thought it was going to be a lot like Mel Brooks' "Blazing Saddles", and in some respects it is. But really, it's a good deal more sophisticated than that.

The plot is almost like a chess game between two brilliant strategists. I understand, from one Chinese reviewer, that the film has a lot of double entendres and puns in Chinese that we are missing without it being our first language. This is an incredible movie, even with half of it lost in translation. I can only imagine that it's absolutely brilliant in Chinese.

Warning: The pacing is super fast and the plot is extremely complicated. Be prepared to pause the film and back up.