King of Chess (1991 film)
Mr. Ching, an influential man from Hong Kong, pull strings to help her as she attempts to make the final episodes of her TV series Whiz Kids World impressive in order to have a better chance of being hired by another company."[3] Reviewer Jonathan Rosenbaum of Chicago Reader wrote, "Though writer-director Yim Ho (Homecoming) disowned this film after producer Tsui Hark took over the direction, it is still one of the most interesting and original Hong Kong pictures I've seen."[4] Regarding the imagery, Jeannette Delamoir wrote, "The King of Chess (1990; Hong Kong; Yim Ho and Tsui Hark) reuses newsreel footage of Red Guard rallies – set to rock music – in its comparative exploration of visuality in modern Taiwan, and in China during the Cultural Revolution."[8] The review website hkfilm.net gave the film a rating of 3 out of 10, calling it, "a boring and mundane morality tale that fails to get its' [sic] point across, even while delivering it with all the subtlety of a Triple H sledgehammer strike to the nether regions."In the 1997 work Hong Kong Cinema: The Extra Dimensions, author Stephen Teo wrote, "Perhaps the most representative film of Yim's, which treats modern Chinese history as a soulsearching endeavour, is King of Chess/Qi Wang (1992).