Movie Review: Never Compromise

The back cover of this Chinese movie has a poorly translated plot summary of Never Compromise.  It begins:

Because of drug problem, 'Homicidal Mania' Bill and Shing conflict with a guy of triad society and kill seven...

Wait!  “'Homicidal Mania' Bill”?!

The Gweilo's Movie Ratings for Never Compromise
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Category	Rating
WTF Meter	4.5 out of 5
MST3K-Ability	4 out of 5
OVERALL QUALITY	2 out of 5

What do these numbers mean?

Chinese Movie	Never Compromise
Director	Bosco Lam
Actors	Frances Ng, Simon Lui, Yu Rong-Guang
Year	2000
Format Viewed	VCD (Universe U333 VCD 2252)

Right there, I knew I would have to see this movie.  Seriously, how can a movie be bad if the main character is called "Homicidal Mania" Bill? 

Movie Review: 9th September

At Gweilo's Guide, we celebrate what makes Chinese movies weird and fresh and unusual from the gweilo's perspective.  Random, nonsensical film-making strategies are a big part of the fun here.  That's the whole point of the WTF meter. 

The Gweilo's Movie Ratings for 9th September
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Category	Rating
WTF Meter	5 out of 5
MST3K-Ability	3 out of 5
OVERALL QUALITY	1.5 out of 5

What do these numbers mean?

Chinese Movie	9th September
Director	Lam Chin Wai
Actors	Michael Chow Man-Kin, Simon Loui Yu-Yeung, Anita Lee Yuen-Wa
Year	2000
Format Viewed	VCD (Universe VCD 2259)

However, as any B-movie fan will tell you, the weirdness can pile up to a point where it stops being amusingly weird, and it starts being just weird weird, in a bad way.  A movie can get random to the point where it’s difficult to make any sense of it at all.  9th September boldly pushes past this boundary within the first few minutes of the film without even breaking a sweat.  In fact, 9th September sets out to discover if there's an even farther boundary, where the accumulated weirdness hits a kind of critical mass, and turns good again.