I've been wanting to see this Chow Yun Fat comedy for years and years, and now on my first amazing trip to Hong Kong and riddled with jetlag, I managed to catch it on HK Netflix!!
And the wait was well worth it..!
I'm sure the neighbouring rooms in my hotel didn't appreciate me laughing out loud for 90 minutes at 4am, but I just couldn't help it - Diary Of A Big Man is insanely hilarious, original, awkward and highly entertaining in every way.
Superstar and all round incredible guy Chow Yun Fat joins forces again with Waise Lee 2 years after their time together on the incredible A Better Tomorrow (1986) with Lee playing the suffering friend of Chow's who tries his hardest to save his friend from being caught out being married to Sally Yeh and Joey Wong!
Seeing both of their performances in this compared to that of ABT just shows what incredible actors they really are, delivering perfect comic timing with Chow Yun Fat just owning the whole show as a man you shouldn't like, but can't help in doing so.
As the film moves on, every situation gets (comically) worse intercut with Chow himself narrating his life and plans to us the audience. Throw in a couple of hilarious musical numbers and of course the big reveal when the wives catch on to his antics, and you are left with one of the funniest films (I've) ever seen that deserves a place among classics such as The Pink Panther, Young Frankenstein etc!!
Love it...
And the wait was well worth it..!
I'm sure the neighbouring rooms in my hotel didn't appreciate me laughing out loud for 90 minutes at 4am, but I just couldn't help it - Diary Of A Big Man is insanely hilarious, original, awkward and highly entertaining in every way.
Superstar and all round incredible guy Chow Yun Fat joins forces again with Waise Lee 2 years after their time together on the incredible A Better Tomorrow (1986) with Lee playing the suffering friend of Chow's who tries his hardest to save his friend from being caught out being married to Sally Yeh and Joey Wong!
Seeing both of their performances in this compared to that of ABT just shows what incredible actors they really are, delivering perfect comic timing with Chow Yun Fat just owning the whole show as a man you shouldn't like, but can't help in doing so.
As the film moves on, every situation gets (comically) worse intercut with Chow himself narrating his life and plans to us the audience. Throw in a couple of hilarious musical numbers and of course the big reveal when the wives catch on to his antics, and you are left with one of the funniest films (I've) ever seen that deserves a place among classics such as The Pink Panther, Young Frankenstein etc!!
Love it...