Let the Bullets Fly (2012)

Release Date: March 2nd, 2012

Director: Wen Jiang

Writers: Bukong Li, Junli Guo, Ping Shu, Sujin Zhu, Wen Jiang, Xiao Wei

Actors: Bing Shao, Carina Lau, Fan Liao, Jun Hu, Kun Chen, Lu Yao, Mo Zhang, Pu Miao, Wen Jiang, Wu Jiang, Xiao Wei, Xiaogang Feng, You Ge, Yun Zhou, Yun-Fat Chow

Genre: Action, Comedy, Western

MPAA Rating: Not available

Official site: Not available

Studio: Well Go USA, Variance Films

Rang zidan fei (original title). Set in China during the warring 1920s,
notorious bandit chief Zhang descends upon a remote provincial town posing as its new mayor, an identity that he had hijacked from Old Tang, himself a small-time imposter. Hell-bent on making a fast buck, Zhang soon meets his match in the tyrannical local gentry Huang as a deadly battle of wit and brutality ensues.
In the lawless land that is rural China in the 1920s, legendary bandit “Pocky” Zhang (Jiang Wen) and his gang stage a train robbery. They are quite unhappy to discover that instead of silver, the only thing left on the train is the con man, Tang (Ge You). Desperate, Tang explains that he’s on his way to Goose Town, where he’s bought himself a governorship. If allowed to live, he will help Zhang assume the governorship in his place… where Zhang can make more money in one month as a corrupt politician than he can in a year’s worth of train robberies. With Tang as his prisoner/counselor, off they go.
But neither realizes that Goose Town is already under the iron rule of the wealthy Master Huang (Chow Yun-Fat, “The Killer,” “Hard Boiled”), whose charming exterior conceals a ruthless, conniving crime lord. As Zhang begins to see how badly Huang oppresses the citizens of Goose Town, he decides to do something about it, and Huang quickly senses a major threat to his empire. Thus begins an escalating series of hyper-violent (and hilarious) mind games between the bandit and the crime lord, while the devious Tang tries to play both sides until he can exit the situation… preferably with a profit. The stakes quickly rise to ludicrous proportions in this masterfully vicious, pitch-black action-comedy (China’s highest grossing film of all time), and you’ll be laughing the entire time as double- and triple-crosses, razor-sharp wordplay, and hundreds of thousands of bullets explode across the screen.