100 Ways to Murder Your Wife | 殺妻二人組 | Saatt Chai Yri Yan Zouh
(1986)Two football stars Kenny Bee and Chow Yun-Fat are unhappy with their wives Anita Mui and Joey Wong. One drunk night they decide that it would be easier if they murder each others wives. Despite the title and how the plot sounds, the film is infact a very light and silly comedy.
There is not much depth to the storyline. Just a series of events that string together great little bits of comedy.
All the four main leads perform well. With this being a comedy, Chow Yun Fat changes up his typical hero like smoothness for a bit more of a crazy comic style which works well here. His comical frustrations keeps the pacing alive and interesting. Kenny Bee is his usual good & decent simpleton, now conflicted to murder a person. Anita Mui plays the wife, annoyed with her husband, perfectly and is very relatable. Joey Wong during this period, as long as she's not a ghost, was mostly eye candy and just keeps prancing around. But still nothing to detract from her performance.
Kenny Bee makes his directorial debut in the film and is the only film he has directed till date. But the presence of Wong Jing, as producer, shows his mark on the movie. Despite all of that Kenny Bee has had a tremendous effect in improving the tone of the film. It has a mellowed down the onslaught of whackiness of the typical Wong Jing film to more pleasing levels.
The visuals and music are typical for the genre, mostly indoors, not much of a spectacle. What music is there is pleasant and themeatically releavant.
Overall, its a great light movie to watch to lift your spirits up despite the odd title. It will provide plenty of laughs and will keep you well entertained in the 90 odd minutes you spend with it.