We don’t claim to be professional movie critics here at Coconuts HK, but we do like to think we can tell the good from the bad. So when we came across “A Captain Among Shmucks” on Vimeo this week, we were most perturbed when we didn’t know whether to laugh ’til the tears ran, or gouge our eyes out before we started losing IQ points.
With the sort of humour that would make Charlie Chaplin turn in his grave, acting that makes Jason Stratham look like Marlon Brando, and unintelligible accents that give Mel Gibson’s Braveheart a run for its money,“A Captain Among Shmucks” is undeniably terrible, but possibly brilliant.
Set in Hong Kong in 1947, the film tells the story of a captain who discovers one of his idiotic deckhands trying to pawn a valuable piece of cargo from the ship…and “Hilarity ensues.” Uh…
Besides from the car crash-type of jaw-slackened attention this special piece of filmography inspires, what’s perhaps most surprising is that it’s apparently an “Award-Winning Film at the Sacramento Film and Music Festival 2014”, although admittedly for “Best Interpretation of the Foolish Prop”. We wonder what prop that was.
All that’s left to say is watch it for yourself and let us know what you think. Does it deserve an Oscar nomination, or 0% on Rotten Tomatoes?
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