Justice, My Foot!

A film that broke the box office in the year of its release. A kind of regal comedy with Hong Kong's King of Comedy Stephen Chow and Hong Kong's Queen of Pop Anita Mui as protagonists. The film is set in an indefinite Qing dynasty past with suitably imaginative Chinese costumes. Chow plays lawyer Sung Shih-Chieh who is all too successful and also unscrupulous. He has no problems arguing the innocence of the greatest crooks. This does not please his wife, played by Mui. She loses one child after another in miscarriages and blames her husband. His unethical practices must have put a curse on her children. She lost twelve. The lawyer is not convinced, but will eventually have to succumb because you can’t mess with his wife: she is an undefeated kung fu champion. When the lawyer becomes involved in a court case about the murder, he has great difficulty keeping to his promise. He will have to use his acrobatic tongue to bring this sticky issue to a satisfactory conclusion.
Characteristic to the genre, the film is a sequence of comic scenes and cutting dialogues which allow Chow and Mui to sparkle. (GjZ)