Baseshment
I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.
Quiet Muffin
This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.
Darin
One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.
OllieSuave-007
This is a Hong Kong action comedy pairing Chow Yun Fat and Liu Fong together as two cops, Bon and Yan. After a botched attempt to nab a drug smuggler, they end up helping illegal resident Kwong Sun (Joey Wang), who was caught in the middle of the heist. Sun fakes amnesia in order to protect her illegal identity and is put-up for several nights by Bon. However, Sun can only fake her amnesia for so long and Bon is still assigned to jab the smuggler.It is a fast-paced police story with some touching chemistry between Chow Yun Fat and Joey Wang, and Fat and Liu Fong make a hilarious police duo - mismatched yet full of rapport. While there is plenty of humor, there are also some intense action scenes, especially involving the drug smuggler (Wai Shum) - scenes that may not be suitable for the younger ones. And, there is also some touching drama, particularly involving how Bon helps Sun.Overall, it's a good Hong Kong action comedy that is fine for young adults and older. The younger crowd might need parental supervision.Grade B+
gridoon
During their last (botched) operation, Hong Kong cops Chow Yun-Fat and Lui Fong accidentally cause the slight head injury of a pretty young woman. Because she has entered the country illegally, and has no other place to live, she pretends that she has amnesia and that she thinks Yun-Fat is her husband. He feels guilty about her "condition", so he lets her stay in his house. But there is someone from her past stalking her, with bad intentions..."A Hearty Response" is a film that could only have been made in Hong Kong. Is there any other country that would even attempt to combine pleasant (and often funny) slapstick comedy, sweet romance, heartfelt melodrama, wild/crazy/furious action and sleazy, misogynistic violence in one film? Is there any other film that contains both brutal rape and a scene in which a boy urinates into the mouth of a man pretending to be unconscious? Chow Yun-Fat fans should certainly not expect anything like "The Killer" here. If you can live with that, I would recommend this picture, but with serious reservations, as its schizophrenic nature makes it not for all tastes. (**1/2)
