History Film / KingOfGambler

* BeachKiss: Between Lin Fei and Bobo.
* BloodBrothers: Between Lin Fei and Paul.

* BaitAndSwitchCredits: The first scene of the movie shows a gambling expert and senior, showing off his card skills at mahjong, baccarat, dominoes, cards, and a variety of gambling-related skills, seemingly hyping him to be an important character, and that this movie will be more in the vein of ''Film/GodOfGamblers'' than, say, ''Film/TheKiller''. Nice try, but five minutes later said gambler gets himself pumped with bullets and the movie proceeds to develop into the HeroicBloodshed John Woo-knockoff it actually is.

After an insanely long and brutal massacre scene where literally hundreds of Mafia goons attack the banquet where Lin Fei and Bobo’s wedding are supposed to take place, killing literally hundreds of members, finally it's up to the heroes to take matter into their own hands. Lin Fei and Paul, son of the triad leader, decide to unleash their inner Rambo and ends up killing maybe a hundred or so mafia goods in the subsequent revenge scene, but Marinda escapes.

''King Of Gambler'' is a 1990 Hong Kong action movie starring Ben Lam and Creator/AlexMan, with elements lifted from John Woo, Chow Yun-fat's ''God of Gamblers'', and more onscreen deaths than most genocide-themed films.

After an insanely long and brutal massacre scene where literally hundreds of Mafia goons attack the banquet where Lin Fei and Bobo’s wedding are supposed to take place, killing literally hundreds of members, finally its up to the heroes to take matter into their own hands. Lin Fei and Paul, son of the triad leader, decide to unleash their inner Rambo and ends up killing maybe a hundred or so mafia goods in the subsequent revenge scene, but Marinda escapes.

Being one of many gambling-related films released after the success of ''Film/GodOfGamblers'', King of Gambler inexplicably changes completely into a HeroicBloodshed flick right in the last half an hour or so, with literally nonstop action lifted from various John Woo films and more bullets fired than most war movies. In case we didn’t mention it yet, YES, this is a death-heavy film, with enough fatalities to rival Film/HardBoiled, despite coming out two years earlier. By the time you’ve witnessed what seems to be the 350th onscreen death in the movie though, you’d most likely forgot what’s the plot of the movie in the first place.

''King Of Gambler'' is a 1990 Hong Kong action movie with elements lifted from John Woo, Chow Yun-fat's ''God of Gamblers'', and more onscreen deaths than most genocide-themed films.

* ExpressiveEars: Lin Fei's ears somehow twitches every time there's danger nearby. It saves him a great deal of times from Yakuza attempting to sneak up on him in the finale.

* HandCannon: Lin Fei and his Magnum. Complete with OneHitPolykill abilities, considering there are scenes where he fired less shots than there are dying Yakuzas appearing in the following scene.

* MoodWhiplash: The banquet massacre is rapidly intersect with Lin Fei and Bobo kissing and preparing forn their upcoming wedding. So we get a few dozen extras getting graphically killed by the mafia, before getting to the two lovers making out, and then back to the massacre again, before going back to the couple being all lovey-dovey...

* BottomlessMagazines: For the two protagonists.

* GenreShift: The first half is a mob drama which is relatively death-free... until Marinda decides to initiate the war. At which point the film quickly steers into HeroicBloodshed territory with the death count piling up by the hundreds.

* MookCarryover: An inverted example. With most of the hundreds of mafia dead, Marinda quickly shufts allegiance to the Yakuza whom are quick enough to take her in as advisor.
* MoreDakka: The final action scene had our two heroes whipping out progressively bigger weapons as dead extras starts piling up by the hundreds.

* OneManArmy: Paul when assaulting Marinda's penthouse and wiping out the whole legion of mafia goons with dual machine guns. Subverted in the final assault in the Yakuza building, where Paul and Lin Fei are a Two Men Army.
* RedOniBlueOni: Hotheaded Paul as the red, level-headed Wai is the blue.
* RedshirtArmy: The triad bodyguards in the banquet massacre. They manage to kill a handful of mafia goons, but ends up dying by the hundreds.

''King Of Gambler'' is a 1990 Hong Kong action movie with elements lifted from John Woo, Chow Yun-fat's ''God of Gamblers'' movies, and more onscreen deaths than most genocide-themed movies.

A war for territorial control between the Hong Kong triads, American Mafia and Japanese Yakuza over the gambling dens and hideouts in the Kowloon region quickly goes out of control. Lin Fei, a top hitman currently engaged to his girlfriend Bobo, ends up being dragged into the warzone when the American Mafia queen, Marinda, displeased at being double-crossed over a casino deal, orders for reinforcements from the States into Hong Kong to wipe out the competition.

* LudicrousPrecision

* RedshirtArmy

* AnyoneCanDie

* BottomlessMagazines: For the two protagonists. Especially jarring when

* FastRoping

* GunsAkimbo

* TheMafia:
* MoodWhiplash

* {{Yakuza}}

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* BackToBackBadasses
* BottomlessMagazines
* DiedInYourArmsTonight
* GenreShift

* HandCannon
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy

* LeapAndFire

* TheMafia

* OneManArmy

* ShotgunsAreJustBetter

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