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100 Ways To Murder Your Wife
also known as: Killing Wives Softly
year of release: 1986
Principal cast.
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Football Fat:
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Chow Yun-Fat
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Roberto:
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Kenny Bee
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Joey:
| Joey Wong
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Anita:
| Anita Mui
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Directed by: Kenny Bee
Additional info.
version reviewed: VCD (Universe VCD 1253)
Ratings.
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audio:
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6 of 10
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video:
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5 of 10
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subtitles:
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7 of 10
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story:
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6 of 10
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performances:
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7 of 10
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CYF:
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7 of 10
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If the English title of this movie puts you off, don't worry because
they don't really attempt it 100 ways. Just a dozen or so.
Just relax, because this is really a very funny movie with some
really great comedy performances. Anita Mui in particular is just
wonderful as the rapier-tongued Yuppie fashion designer wife of Roberto (Kenny Bee),
captain of the HK soccer team. Joey Wong is Joey, the sweet and innocent
young wife of Fat, the captain of the Malaysian team, played by Chow Yun-Fat
in one of his goofier roles. You can think of the husbands and wives
in this film as a set of teams as well - the women are attractive and
smart, and the men are attractive and dumb as dirt.
Football Fat is a great soccer player and cute guy with a former Miss Malaysia
as a wife, and seemingly with everything else anybody could want, too.
Unfortunately for him that "everything" includes a wildly jealous and suspicious
streak so that he thinks he's being two-timed by his wife with every man she
meets (including her gay friend, the team physician). He also has this strange
penchant for committing veggie-cide. At any rate, one afternoon he overhears
part of a conversation between Joey and the doctor and immediately is convinced
she's trying to murder him.
Roberto, a lovable slob with a tendency to let his mouth hang open, has a problem
with his wife, too - she's smart, ambitious, successful and verrrrrrry pushy. After
a big argument one evening in which Anita humiliates him in front of the neighbors,
Roberto goes off to party with the Malaysian football team, and ignores his wife's strict
instructions to call her when he gets there, not to drink, and to come home early.
So that evening when Roberto meets up with Football Fat, after exchanging pleasantries
and about 47 pitchers of beer, Roberto tidies up by washing his hair in a urinal and
Footbal Fat hits upon the idea that they should murder one another's wives. Roberto,
the few brain cels still clinging to the inside of his skull after one too many
soccer balls have bounced off of it temporarily incapicated by drink, woozily agrees but passes out before he gets a
chance to go hack Joey to pieces. Football Fat, a little less drunk but no less
bubbleheaded, immediately heads off to Roberto's apartment to keep up his end of their
boozy bargain.
What comes after that is a really funny, fast 'n' furious series of events in which
Anita Mui and Chow Yun-Fat battle it out with kitchen knives in her living room, a chicken
is thrown down a cliff, Joey Wong peels grapes in a bathing suit, Football Fat wanders
around in a towel hunting for sex maniacs after his wife, Roberto bathes while wearing
a new pair of shoes given to him by the "ghost" of his wife, and the whole movie ends
up with Anita and Joey stealing a hot air balloon after spending the night in a gay
discotheque which features Wong Jing dressed in drag as one of the patrons.
It's impossible to explain. You just have to see it for yourself.
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