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      A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop

      R Released Sep 3, 2010 1h 30m Comedy Drama List
      34% Tomatometer 59 Reviews 39% Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings A visit by a Persian gun salesman sets off a series of fatal double-crosses involving a police deputy, a Chinese restaurateur, his adulterous wife, and a pair of inept employees. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Jun 27 Buy Now

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      Zhang Yimou's broad reinterpretation of the Coen Brothers' Blood Simple struggles to bring anything new to the twisty murder mystery and instead ladles on an excess of stilted comedy.

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      Jim Schembri The Age (Australia) There is certainly some curio value for cineastes here, but the real mystery is, well, what the heckfire was going through Zhang Yimou's once-brilliant mind when he decided to make this? Rated: 2/5 Nov 3, 2010 Full Review Tom Long Detroit News Heaven knows what inspired Zhang to undertake this nutty project, but the results are, at the least, amusing. Rated: B- Oct 22, 2010 Full Review Geoff Pevere Toronto Star A Woman, A Gun and a Noodle Shop is a tipsy wedding of low hijinks and tiptoe-tense suspense stretches. Rated: 2/4 Oct 5, 2010 Full Review Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com It is middling Yimou at best. Rated: 2.5/4.0 Sep 27, 2020 Full Review David Nusair Reel Film Reviews ...the movie, unlike the majority of contemporary remakes, stands on its own as an original and surprising piece of work. Rated: 2.5/4 Mar 6, 2011 Full Review Jeffrey Chen ReelTalk Movie Reviews A valentine from one director to a famous team of others. Rated: 8/10 Feb 9, 2011 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member The worst dramedy in Chinese ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Audience Member I'm surprised there are so many negative reviews of this movie. It is in fact a re-make a "Blood Simple," but where "Blue Simple" is a thriller with comedic undertones, this movie is a comedy with thriller undertones. I think some reviewers took issue with the cartoony manner of the presentation, but if you're up for the ride it's enjoyable. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Audience Member This surprising Chinese remake of the Coen Brothers' Blood Simple begins as a candy-coloured slapstick comedy and gradually turns darker (in tone). Yimou Zhang uses his pictorial skill to set the film in an artificial landscape in the distant past where at least they still have noodle shops, even if the cops run everywhere in formation with an odd sort of siren voiced by the wind. A greedy miser's young wife is having an affair with one of his employees and when he finds out, he hires a crooked cop to kill them both. However, greed wins over evil - or wait, love triumphs over evil and greed - or wait, no one stays dead - or wait, everyone dies in the end. It has been too long since I saw Blood Simple but I assume its twisty plot has been replicated here as a sort of fable that ends as a cosmic joke. I suspect the original is far better but this remake stands as a valiant effort to do something different with the material. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member Slapstick comedy and thriller - this is very simple without much character development - short and sharp. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Audience Member This could have been an acceptable adaptation piece if it had let its ridiculous foolishness go. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member For the adventurous cinephiles among us! Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis A visit by a Persian gun salesman sets off a series of fatal double-crosses involving a police deputy, a Chinese restaurateur, his adulterous wife, and a pair of inept employees.
      Director
      Yimou Zhang
      Screenwriter
      Xu Zhengchao, Shi Jianquan
      Distributor
      Sony Pictures Classics
      Production Co
      Beijing New Picture Film Co., Film Partner International
      Rating
      R (Some Violence)
      Genre
      Comedy, Drama
      Original Language
      Chinese
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Sep 3, 2010, Limited
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Mar 3, 2011
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $190.7K
      Runtime
      1h 30m
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