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Goldbuster Movie Review

Goldbuster Movie Review

 The Hong Kong comedy star plays a small-time crook posing as a ghostbuster who ends up in a battle between tenants and developers in this comedy spoof


A venerable comedy actress who occasionally hints at a touch of social conscience beneath the slapstick antics of her loud but likeable characters, Sandra Ng Kwan-yue finally follows her husband Peter Chan Ho-sun’s footsteps into making her directing debut with this horror comedy, produced by Chan and based on an original story by Ng and popular writer Ong Yi-hing.

Before Hong Kong film fans begin to sneer at the wholesale ‘mainlandisation’ of Ng’s quirky tale, which takes place in an unidentified Chinese city and features a cast predominantly from China (its two Hong Kong characters are, somewhat unnecessarily, introduced as being “from Hong Kong”), it is worth noting that Goldbuster does tackle a favourite subject of Hongkongers.

With several notable comedians from China – as well as Hong Kong’s Francis Ng Chun-yu and Alex Fong Chung-shun as a pair of deluded gangsters – hamming it up as members of the eclectic ensemble, Goldbuster is at its most effective whenever it pauses to focus on individual characters, who all have interesting settings and share roughly the same amount of screen time


Just as George Romero satirised consumerism with his zombie classics, Ng resorts to a zombie outbreak midway through the film to skewer speculative property investors who have, literally, lost all signs of humanity. While far from being coherent, the actress-turned director’s first feature does boast enough scenes of inspired hilarity to offset its less effective moments – of which there are also plenty..

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