Friday Gigolo
During the last twenty minutes of this film, I
just had to start laughing. Up until then it had followed the plot of the
1987 American movie The Bedroom Window somewhat faithfully with one big
difference. Then, I guess the writers decided that the American ending
just didn’t have enough pizzazz and they decided to do it HK style.
Simon Yam is a photographer during the week, but
come Friday evening he earns a little extra spending money by renting out
his services as a gigolo. He tells his client that he saves it up all week
for this night to better satisfy his customers. She takes him at his word
and they are soon testing out all of his furniture plus his chin up bar.
At least that takes care of having to dust the furniture!
Afterwards she hears some cries from the street
and looking out she sees a girl being strangled. Upon seeing her though,
the man stops and runs away and the girl does the same. The next day the
murder of a female is reported and the description of the suspect fits
the man she saw. She is married (as it turns out to Simon’s boss) and so
cannot tell the police. Simon decides to pretend that he saw it and reports
the incident to the police. Complications follow.
Finally in the last part of the film all hell
breaks out as a bunch of folks are out to kill Simon. But before that,
they decide to really damage his pride first in an excruciating scene that
had my palms sweating. They take Simon to the top of a long series of steps
– tie his guilty party with a rope to a heavy oil barrel – and roll the
barrel down the steps – while holding Simon down.
I kind of enjoyed this silly and very idiotic
film. I am not sure too many other people would though. It goes from a
sleazy Cat III film to a thriller to an absurd action finale. But all in
good fun. And Simon no matter how ridiculous the movie still manages to
look so cool.
