domenica 8 maggio 2016

Bo bui gai wak - 2006

I suppose that's the original Chinese title, I found it on the internet, but I know it as Rob-b-hood.
It was nice, a classic Jackie Chan movie, with characters that are a bit stupid but not too bad after all, and funny and unusual fight scenes. Since fights and generally action scenes are always present in his movies, there's always a sort of innovation, a research for new ways of showing old things.
Here he plays Thongs (sic) who is a thief and a gambler who never ever wins, basically he's a loser and his old father's reason for shame. He works with Octopus (ri-sic) who acts like a bastard with his beautiful and poor wife, treating her very badly.
They work with an old thief who taught them all the secrets of his 'profession', and who lives with a good but a bit crazy woman who treats a doll like a real baby.
They steal everything they can sell for good money. At the beginning of the movie they are stealing expensive drugs from a hospital when a crazy guy kidnaps a baby , just born, because he wants the young mother to go away with him. All security is on him, and eventually he falls to his death, but Thongs manages to save the baby. After that they go back to their usual life of stealing money and then throw them away in different ways. One day they are offered three millions to kidnap a baby, and later the reward will rise to thirty millions! A lot of money, no doubt, but they've spent a lot of time learning how to take care of a little baby, they have taken lessons, learned to change him, feed him, make him stop crying, and who could resist that, of course they grow fond of the little one. Of course that little smile melts their hearts. As soon as they give the baby to the boss who wants him, they get really worried about him and try to get him back.
The old boss is the father of the crazy guy that died falling in that hospital, and he thinks that this baby is his grandson, but a quick (very quick) blood test proves that he's not, the baby is the son of his mother and her husband, how about that! The old man loses it definitely, leaves the baby to freeze with the corpse of his own son and goes away. Our two 'heroes' save the baby (but only because an inspector comes to save them).
It all ends with the baby being saved, of course, and the three thieves being arrested. Now they all try to make amends to start a new life. They will be released soon and are offered a job by the baby's family as a thank you for saving him. Octopus (sigh) has a lot to be forgiven for but his wife seems to enjoy having him as her doorstep now :lol:
The Chinese title says nothing to me but apparently it is very similar to the title of a Chan's old movie.

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