1983 · action-comedy · lucky-stars · ensemble
Winners and Sinners
Directed by Sammo Hung Kam-Bo1h 48m1983
Five friends are released from prison and do their best to stay out trouble. While trying to mind their own business (and run their 5-Star Cleaning Service), they are caught up in a war between rival Triad gangs fighting for control of the counterfeit currency market.
Our read: Winners and Sinners (1983) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded action-comedy · lucky-stars · ensemble entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, measured action-comedy / lucky-stars, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- cosy
- kinetic
- funny
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