You may remember Robin Shou from MORTAL KOMBAT, a fun-filled cheesefest from the mid-'90s. He played Liu Kang, the hero, and his skill at stuntwork was eclipsed only by his consistently great hair.
Well, Shou still has great hair, and he's still deeply involved in the stuntman's craft. With RED TROUSERS, he has directed a documentary about the lives of Hong Kong stuntmen, their roots in Chinese Opera, and the challenges they face as they ply their craft. It's an interesting film with the requisite number of talking heads and archival clips, but what makes it really fun is its use of a terrible movie-within-the-movie to illustrate how the sweat and pain of stuntwork delivers delivers those sequences that make the audience go, "Ooof! That's gotta hurt!" Will the general viewer find RED TROUSERS particularly engaging? Probably not, but fans of Hong Kong action pictures might want to give it a spin.
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