Watching a foreign comedy can be a tricky prospect since comedy is often difficult to translate. Most Hong Kong comedies I've seen have been largely slapstick, so this isn't really an issue, but Let the Bullets Fly is a lot more sophisticated, with wordplay and satire and presumably a bunch of historical and cultural references that flew over my dumb head.

It's still pretty entertaining though - especially fun is Chow Yun-Fat as a grinning villain. Also the action scenes were pretty cool (although you could make the argument that there wasn't enough of them).

"Let the Bullets Fly" is hilarious. But it's hilarious at 100 miles an hour, with the revelations and twists happening at such a dizzying pace that it's easy to get lost. Watch it with friends, as I did, so you can help each other out if things get complicated. Everything here works: The cast is first-rate, the special effects are sharp and spectacular, the dialogue is wonderfully witty. If Tarantino and the Coen Brothers ever teamed up, and if they brought out the best in each other, it might end up something like this. It's like "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" meets "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" with plenty of "Pulp Fiction" and "True Grit" thrown in. Chow Yun-Fat and Wen Jiang are so much fun onscreen together, you'll wish DeNiro and Pacino could have faced off onscreen like this in their prime. It's on Netflix Instant. Don't miss it.

Very weird yet interesting movie. Awful CGI, good fight scenes and breathtaking scenery.

Story-wise it was a very weird movie, containing some minor twists. There were also a lot of funny scenes. Not your typical Chinese Film

The witty dialogue flies at you fast and furious in this black comedy / action movie. I don't believe I've ever seen anything quite like it. The principal cast is excellent in it, but Wen Jiang steals the show for me.

Three great actors make preposterous screenplay come to life. Too long by about 30 minutes; some shaky CGI and some pointless stunt work could easily be trimmed out to heighten very strong production design.

So this was an interesting movie, quick dialog, but like many action movies, the dialog seems a bit stiff. Action was over the top, and humor was quite strange. I still ended up finishing the movie, even though afterwards I'm not sure what I'd seen..

Fun, crazy, over-the-top action with incredibly strong acting, though the myriad storylines get a bit muddled at times, and it kind of fizzles out by the end. A lot of people will give props to Chow Yun-Fat, but I preferred Jiang Wen as the charismatic and devilishly clever bandit leader. The train robbery sequence at the beginning of the film might be my favorite movie scene in the last few months.

Fun characters and some enjoyable if not all that original plot twists and turns really get overwhelmed by the schizophrenic pacing. Scenes cut in and out with such a frenzy as to induce headaches as pretty cool set piece ideas are piled atop each other so quickly that the sum total becomes quickly diluted and loses a lot of impact. Overall a shame because there is a lot of enjoyment to be had here buried under this kitchen sink approach to story elements and visuals.

It's glorious. Like watching Toshiro Mifune outsmart baddies again, in Tarantino style.

Propulsive political satire/Chinese western with a sharp, subversive look at corruption and how government works and a number of memorable comic set pieces and a crazy convoluted plot (I dare you to keep track of all the plots and counter-plots; it doesn't seem humanly possible) and also ample time for just fucking around. Favorite detail: the geese; or how the outlaws keep breaking windows when they try to give silver to the poor; or Chow Yun Fat playing two roles. Jiang Wen is a genius.