The Saint of Gamblers

Director: Wong Jing

Action Director: Dion Lam

Plot: With the second annual International Gambling Championship, Uncle Tat (Ng Man-Tat) goes on the search for the next "Saint of Gamblers". He travels to the remote village of "Tin San" where all it's residents have unique supernatural powers. Tat is introduced to the dim witted "God Bless-You" (Eric Kot), he has the power to enlarge objects ten times it's original size and he also has the ability read peoples minds through touch.

Tat takes God to Hong Kong putting him into the competition representing Hong Kong. Whilst at the competition God befriends Ray Thai (Ben Lam), Yuen Fan (Chingmy Yau) and her younger brother Siu Lung (Sik Siu-Lung). Ray is a representing Macau in the competition, although God only seems to be giving Ray a continual stream of bad luck when he is around him. Known that God is interested in Yuen Fan he misleads him into thinking that Yuen Fan is interested him.

With the competition hotting up God and Ray end up in the finals against each other. They soon find out that Ray is going to any length to claim his victory and achieve the fame that he's been seeking!

Review: Before I begin let me remind you that I have seen God of Gamblers I & Return of the Gamblers so I don't any of the references from the films in between them either. Neither have I seen "All of the Winner" in which this is a loosely based sequel/spin off.

When watching I expected the worst mainly because I had expected Wong Jing to have ran out of ideas when it comes to Gambling comedies. Plus I'm not really the biggest fan of Eric Kot. As you can expect I ended up finding the film enjoyable, sure it's quite goof and lame at times but it does have it's charms.

Ben Lam's character is really played for laughs, you can't help but laugh at some of the crazy shit that happens to this poor fella. As well Eric Kot played his character quite well he wasn't too over the top!

Notable Appearances include: Shing Fui-On as one of Ray's men, one of asia's hottest high kickers Donnie Yen as a Interpol agent, Nat Chan & Manfred Wong make appearances as announcers. Corey Yuen also makes a nice cameo during a Mahjong scene. Other appearances include Baat Leung, Diana Pang & Teresa Ha.

Final thoughts, a fun film, although it doesn't really have a frequent re-watch value to it. Enjoy!

Rating: 5.9 out of 10.0

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