China's top domestic grosser and part of FOCUS: First Cuts film
series. Like Love Story, Rain Dogs, Shoe Fairy etc..
I think this is the funniest yet in the series and possibly one of
the best movies this year. Mainland China has never looked so
happening. 
Review:
A trio of inept grifters, an accomplished but unlucky cat burglar
and a lustful louse of a photographer unwittingly find themselves
tangled together in a messy heist for a precious jade pendant,
discovered at the grounds of a floundering factory on the verge of
being torn down. The only man standing in their way is a jaded (and
constipated) ex-detective, Bao Shihong (Guo Tao) who moonlights as
a security guard, dedicated to protect the pendant.
With the comic subtlety of a Stephen Chow effort and the frenzied
pace of a psychedelic monkey, Ning Haos direction oozes reckless
exuberance and is distinguished by a sharp visual intuitiveness and
canny knack for accentuating physical comedy in his performers. In
his latest film, Crazy Stone, Ning Hao brings the focus to
mainland China - set in Chongqing, a bustling city with an
effervescent and distinctive population. Its a welcome change of
pace from his austere and halcyonian Mongolian Ping Pong, which
rigorously strayed away from highfalutin city living.
A high concept crime comedy, its chock-full of the requisite black
comedy, violence and accidental mayhem that audiences have come to
expect from caper-genre gems such as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking
Barrels, Snatch and Pulp Fiction. Relying heavily on
complexities, coincidences, and confluences, it brings together
disparate groups of characters with shared ambitions and builds a
disjointed narrative that constantly revolves around a singular
catalyst...........
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