Young and Dangerous 3

Director:
Andrew Lau
Producer: Manfred
Wong
Oh Yes, a film the Y&D
fans have been waiting for. In the first installment of the series we
seen Chan Ho-Nam (Ekin Cheng)
and his gang of merry men out smart the evil Kwan. In the sequel we
see Chicken (Jordan Chan)
get into all sorts of trouble in Taiwan. Now the third film of the series,
Chan Ho Nam has become the branch leader of the Causeway Bay in Hong
Kong. Although another group have opened a club right besides Ho Nams
club…
This new group consists
Camel, Tiger and Crow. Camel (Chan
Wai-Man) is a reasonable fella and doesn't want trouble from the
Hung Hing group as he has been a good friend with Mr. Chiang (Simon
Yam). Tiger (Chi Hung Ng who play Brother Bee in the first Y&D)
seems to be rather rebellious, with his clean cut image and trendy glasses
he seems to be a acceptable gang leader. Crow (Roy
Cheung), now he is pure evil, through out the film you find him
guilty of murder, gang rape, public shooting, blackmail and so on… Trust
me when you see him go trigger happy in Holland it lets you know how
sinister he is…
Now the Causeway Bay
boys are all back…
Chicken has some funny
moments in the film, with him rejoining Hing Hung, but he's right at
the beginning again, having to be a follower of Banana Skin (Jason Chu).
He has even found a new love interest Shuk-Fan (Karen
Mok), who is the daughter of THE LETHAL WEAPON! Yes our kick ass
priest (Spencer Lam) is back and surprisingly enough has an army with
him! Pou Pan (Jerry Lamb) is still in the group, although he seems to
have gone soft…well he has always been soft but in this movie he seems
to have a bad stammer instead of Smarty! Tin-Yee (Michael Tse) is back
and he's grown a goatee and got some muscles compared to the first film.
He is still dating KK! And yes her big brother Tai Fai (Anthony
Wong) is back too and loyal as ever. He even has a big decision
to make when he is chosen to kill a member of the Hung Hing group!
Oh another positive part
of the movie is Smarty (Gigi Lai) recovering from her coma. Yet she
has gotten a case of amnesia. This gives Andrew Lau the chance revisit
many memorable sets from the original Young and Dangerous. Including
the Football pitch, the hills where they made Smarty eat Buns and Tin-Yee
even recreated the scene where Smarty had stolen Ho-Nams car and tried
to sell it back to him.
In conclusion Young and
Dangerous III is a fine edition to its series. Having only seen the
first three films, this film has kept me interested in the series and
wanting to know more about the character and how they develop in further
films…
Highlights
- Introduction Music
- Crows Intro
- Chicken having to follow Banana
Skin
- Blacky Ko's appearance
- Shuk Fans intro beating Chicken!
- Priest Lam buying the parenting
books (very touching scene!)
- Tiger and Crow having a shoot out
in Holland!
- Chan Ho-Nam's jumping from the bridge
- Tai Fai having to hunt down a member
of Hing Hung
- Tai Fai's confronting his target!
- Chan Ho-Nam, Smartie and Shuk Fan
being chased
- The people on the football pitch
showing no respect to Chicken, Tin-Yee and Banana Skin
- Chicken assaulting the disrespectful
guy from the Football Pitch The Ending battle!
Letdowns
- The film ending…
- The flames in front of Crow
Rating: 9.0 out
of 10.0