Reviewed by: j.crawford Date: 01/16/2007 Summary: mandatory viewing Novelist turned screenwriter Edmond Pang Ho-Cheung jumpstarts his directorial career by joining with seasoned comedy film writer, producer and director Vincent Kok Tak-Chiu to create an intelligent movie about film, films, and filming. You Shoot, I Shoot is about eating, drinking, and sleeping movies and the artist's struggle to create, and finance, meaningful work. This is certainly one of the best films of 2001. If you are even remotely interested in Hong Kong cinema, this is mandatory viewing. Reviewer Score: 9

Reviewed by: dandan Date: 03/08/2006 Summary: funny comedy, as a hit-man teams up with an aspiring director... as making a living being a hitman becomes harder, bart starts cold-calling former clients to see if they can give him any 'work'. eventually a rich woman offers him a job, but she wants him to film the execution. this does not go well. bart gets another chance, but this time, he teams up with aspiring director, cheun, and this new 'service', becomes a raging success. a funny and dark debut from pang ho cheung; excellent stuff.

Reviewed by: White Dragon Date: 11/16/2005 Summary: Brilliant debut feature from Edmnd Pang After four years, I finally managed to catch up with Edmond Pang’s debut directorial effort and, only ever having read about it prior, found it hugely entertaining! Suffering through the Asian financial crisis, assassin Bart (Eric Kot) finds himself on hard times and struggling to support his wife (Audrey Fang). By chance he’s asked by a high society woman (Miao Feilin) to off a former lover (who sold off one of their trysts into the black market VCD arena), and film the murder so she can gloat over his death – but Bart’s DV skills aren’t the best and the results are a bit lacklustre. Offering him a second chance, she gives him a second target…and he hires his own director, Chuen (Cheung Tat Ming); and pretty soon the two are more in demand than they could imagine. Very, very funny black comedy that does some great things with the assassin-for-hire genre – with Kot and Cheung (two actors who normally tend to annoy me) in fine form. Lots of in-jokes and an awesome look and sound (the editing may give a few viewers headaches) for first time director Pang. There are riotous setpieces galore (perhaps too many to mention), however akin to many comedies it does tend to run out of steam by the final act (a hit on mob-boss Jim Chim that slows the previously breakneack pace of the film down to a sluggish trot). Overall though, the film remains hilariously great fun for fans of black comedy and a great vehicle for both Kot and Cheung. Aside from follow-up film MEN SUDDENLY IN BLACK, it's been a sharp decline in quality for Pang post his seminal mark on HK cinema. Reviewer Score: 8

Reviewed by: pjshimmer Date: 10/14/2005 Summary: Solid black comedy Here is a highly impressive debute from Edmond Pang. Although a black comedy by nature, at heart it reflects the local state of affairs. You can feel the financial crisis in the air when characters discuss their unemployment, and their misfortune from the real estate price tumble. As well, the numerous commentaries on local filmmaking are quite humorous. The first half of the film is extremely well done, while the second half doesn't have much to offer. The use of jump cuts, the alternative editing technique pioneered by Jean-Luc Godard, works very well in several scenes. Great effort overall. [8/10]

Reviewed by: mrblue Date: 02/04/2005 Eric Kot plays an assassin who has trouble finding work due to the Asian financial crisis. One of his clients offers a lot of work on the condition that it must be filmed. Kot finds a wannabe director (Cheung Tat Ming), and they get good results. Things seem to be going well until one client's request for a "special" movie turns into a task more difficult than the two could imagine. I am not a fan of Eric Kot -- his Stephen Chow wannabe thing gets old real quick. However, this movie has a pretty unique plot. The only movie that I can think of that would be close is the French movie Man Bites Dog. However, that movie is a "blacker than black" comedy, and You Shoot is almost gleeful in its' approach. Leave it up to Hong Kong to make a screwball comedy about snuff movies, I guess. The fact that You Shoot comes from Golden Harvest -- the studio best known for its family-friendly fare like Jackie Chan movies -- is a bit suprising as well. What I am getting at here is that this is not Eric Kot's usual kind of movie, and so he doesn't give his usual (bad) performance. Yeah, he still tries really hard to be Stephen Chow (there is one gag totally swiped from Chow's King of Comedy), but he manages to restrain his performance a bit and create (dare I say it?) a likeable character, which translates into better comedy. While as a whole You Shoot isn't as good as some other Hong Kong comedies, there are several pretty funny bits, such as a parody of the Young and Dangerous series (going so far as to use actual actors from the films), that makes the movie worth a viewing if you're into the moy len tau (nonsense) comedies. [review from www.hkfilm.net]

Reviewed by: Kyashan Date: 06/02/2003 Summary: Nice I can't to watch all movie, meybe only half movie but I found it nice and comical. A very nice killers who want to have memories of they inexpert shoots. I can't give a correct ranting but I think that 6/10 is enought.

Reviewed by: zarrsadus Date: 05/27/2002 Summary: Awesome "killer comedy" ...okay bad joke Well I was doing my post-date review of Fulltime Killer (ugh) and that reminded me of an actually decent assassin-type movie, You Shoot, I Shoot. I didn't know what to expect going into this movie, and like the other reviews have noted, they were suprised as to how good it was. Turning killing into a movie business, lol, a great concept that I don't think has been done before and turns out funny and entertaining. Go out and watch this movie right now, you won't be dissapointed! I'll also chime in that I got the soundtrack since I loved the movie so much, and the song "Promotional Dinner for Two - Shoot Shoot" is very catchy, the song that plays in the credits. Overall 9/10 Reviewer Score: 9

Reviewed by: Inner Strength Date: 04/17/2002 Summary: Good I think the biggest suprise I had was the fact that Eric Kot was actually very good in this part. Before I first watched this, I never had any interest in seeing it, because Eric Kot has never had anything to offer in a film, and placing him as a main character seemed a big mistake. Looks like things can change though, as this film is actually very very good. Interesting story, good plot, good acting (when they do act), and the comedy is quite funny. Recommended. Rating: 4/5

Reviewed by: mejones Date: 03/22/2002 Summary: Great Film! This is a really great movie, and one I'd warn against reading ANY reviews that might include spoilers! That said, here's a spoiler free and brief review! Eric Kot is a hit man who's hard pressed to get work in the current economic recession! His wife even encourages him to make "cold" sales calls to try and drum up business (with some pretty hilarious results!) Many of his clients are rich house wives who have nothing to do all day except play Mahjong and have people killed and it's one such woman who insists that he video tape a hit so she can have the pleasure of seeing her enemy die. Eric soon discovers he'll need a partner to do this sort of thing properly! Enter Cheung Tat Ming as an unemployed Assistant Director with a degree from NY Film Academy and aspirations to be the next Martin Scorsese! It doesn't take long before ALL the Mahjong players as well as some triad bosses catch on to this fad, and Eric and Tat Ming are rolling in dough! The entire cast is excellent, working from a unique and creative script which takes lots of unexpected turns! Very funny stuff, parodying the killer and triad genres, as well as the whole HK film industry itself!

Reviewed by: Sydneyguy Date: 01/18/2002 Summary: PRetty good Like DANTON below me, i was quite suprised how entertaining this movie is!! Eric Kot is not is normally annoying self, which is good!! He doesnt' display his anoying personality which is a big shock, because he acts very well without resorting to his hyper active self!! The storyline is quite interesting. A professional killer hires a movie director to record his killings, but the director goes a bit overboard and makes it into a mini movie, which SELLS like hotcakes. Oh this is a comedy more than action movie, though it may not sound like it. 7/10 Reviewer Score: 7

Reviewed by: danton Date: 01/03/2002 What a pleasant surprise! Definitely one of the best comedies to come out of HK in a long time. It's about a hitman played by Eric Kot who kills on demand for money. His clients are mostly rich society women who want people they don't like killed. One of his clients wants the killing filmed so that she can get the added satisfaction of watching the whole thing afterwards. His initial attempts to film it himself are abject failures, so he teams up with a hapless assistant director who dreams of being the next Martin Scorsese. Their business takes off and soon becomes more about the artistic merits of the videos produced than about the killings. It's mainly a satire about movie making in HK, and despite the presence of Eric Kot (who I've found pretty annoying up until this movie), it's really funny in a rather macabre sort of way. Watching them discuss their next hit (i.e. murder) by talking about "lighting" and "POV shots" is funny in a rather cynical sort of way. It gets better: Eric Kot is saddled with in-laws who are both trying to hire his services, which Cheung Tat Ming is in love with a hapless Japanese Cat III starlet who is being exploited by everyone on the movie set. Add to that a rival hitman played by Vincent Kuk, and it all comes together in a hilarious final "shooting" (in both meanings of the word) that makes fun of any number of HK movie making conventions (including the obligatory pidgeons during the shootout). Highly satisfying.

Reviewed by: slasher Date: 12/24/2001 Summary: You shoot, I shoot Bart ( Eric Kot ) is a professional hitman. When one of his clients requested him to record the details of his hit with a DV, he didn't do a very good job in recording. Later, he meets a kind-hearted assistant director named Chuen ( Cheung Tat-Ming ). Bart then hires Chuen to be his filming director in his hits. It turned out very successful for Chuen's first video and soon, the two became very famous in the hitman industry. They offer their client the 'You shoot, I shoot' package which includes a video of the details of the killing of their target.