Kung Fu Hustle review

Kung Fu Hustle, the critically acclaimed film directed by Stephen Chow, turned many heads as it debuted into the United States film scene. As it debuted into the American film scene, it received strenuous reviews upon film critic websites, such as Rotten Tomatoes, gaining a 90% approval rate.

The movie gives a life lesson of how good is really intrinsically in everyone, and at the same time, some people never change. For instance, even though Sing strenuously attempts to "fit in" by being the complete opposite of himself- being a fake gangster, he always resorts to being his old self. As a younger child, he helped the mute girl, and had always thought of world peace. Although he attempted to defer the past, he eventually succumbs to being "good" again, defeating the gangsters as a heroic act.

This move also has major relation to traditional Chinese culture. Gangsters are depicted in abundance in the film, as they are/were in China. Statistically speaking, there were 300,000 gangsters living among Hong Kong, and many of them were the notorious Triad gang. Other references were the old and new cultures that are prevalent among China. Karate was in abundance during the movie, demonstrating many different types of movie within the movie. Casinos and the night life are depicted as the new types of pop culture(and sort of western influences), that are now within China's culture.

This movie has a good fusion of comedy and karate, and at the same time, it shows the modernization of films because of the actions scenes that are not possibly by conventional films. For instance, the scene where he is up upon the cloud could only be made by computer, and Chow uses a good array of computer aided graphics to spice up the film, and bring more depth.