FATAL COMIC is a dreadful shot-on-video Hong Kong martial arts film that seems to have been inspired by manga comics. The main actor in it is Ashton Chen, masquerading under the pseudonym Jacky Chan (!), and he plays a teenager with a passion for drawing comic strips featuring his own personal hero. One day his kung fu-fighting father is killed by street thugs so he decides to adopt his own comic book persona and bring him to life by dressing up as him in a battle for revenge.
The plot is lightweight and flimsy and basically a reason to string a series of low-rent fight sequences together, but it's the execution that really lets this story down. It looks and feels cheap and amateurish throughout, so much so that it feels laughable as a result. Chen started out as a child star of the likes of SHAOLIN POPEY and he can certainly fight, but that's all you get from him. The action is wire work assisted and not bad as action goes, but the whole shot-on-video aspect of the production makes it looks poor anyway. Chi Lei Kong is a pretty actress they've roped in to play in support, but she's about all this ridiculous film has going for it.
The plot is lightweight and flimsy and basically a reason to string a series of low-rent fight sequences together, but it's the execution that really lets this story down. It looks and feels cheap and amateurish throughout, so much so that it feels laughable as a result. Chen started out as a child star of the likes of SHAOLIN POPEY and he can certainly fight, but that's all you get from him. The action is wire work assisted and not bad as action goes, but the whole shot-on-video aspect of the production makes it looks poor anyway. Chi Lei Kong is a pretty actress they've roped in to play in support, but she's about all this ridiculous film has going for it.