Just Call Me Nobody
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Just Call Me Nobody is a 2010 comedy-martial arts film directed by Kevin Chu. The film is about a bumbling cobbler
(Xiao Shen Yang) who becomes a martial arts master.
) and later helps save her in a fight despite having no martial-arts training. She thanks him and says she can be found on Qin Mountain if she is needed. Yuelou is secretly a princess who is due to marry the emperor (Banny Chen) but escape after setting the palace on fire.
, that said the best thing about the film was the "local marketing strategy" and that "Many Singaporeans could be drawn to the movie on the strength of its poster which touts the talents of top comics from the Chinese entertainment world...But once they watch the movie, they will realise they are the victims of a bait-and-switch: Tsang, Wu and Lee are merely guests making lame cameos."
Cobbler
Cobbler may refer to:* A shoemaker who repairs shoes, rather than manufacturing them .** Cobbler apron, a type of apron that covers both the front and back of the body...
(Xiao Shen Yang) who becomes a martial arts master.
Plot summary
In ancient China, a poor shoe repair man Wu Di (Xiao Shen Yang) lives with his mother (Chen Hui-chuen) and is obsessed with martial-arts picture books. Wu Di repairs the shoe of the swordswoman Yuelou (Kelly LinKelly Lin
Kelly Lin Hsi-Lei is a Taiwanese actress and model who has appeared mainly in Hong Kong films.-Biography:Lin was born in Taiwan in 1975. She moved to Santa Barbara, California with her family at the age of 12. She graduated from the University of California, Irvine with a Degree in Economics...
) and later helps save her in a fight despite having no martial-arts training. She thanks him and says she can be found on Qin Mountain if she is needed. Yuelou is secretly a princess who is due to marry the emperor (Banny Chen) but escape after setting the palace on fire.
Release
Just Call Me Nobody was released on December 3, 2010 in China and is set to be released in Taiwan on January 26, 2011. On its release in China, the topped the box office grossing $9,018,081.Reception
Derek Elley of Film Business Asia gave the film a rating of three out of ten, referring to the film as "poorly scripted" and actor Xiao Shen Yang as "a weak lead". A negative review of the film came from my paperMy paper
My Paper is a free, bilingual newspaper in Singapore published by the Singapore Press Holdings....
, that said the best thing about the film was the "local marketing strategy" and that "Many Singaporeans could be drawn to the movie on the strength of its poster which touts the talents of top comics from the Chinese entertainment world...But once they watch the movie, they will realise they are the victims of a bait-and-switch: Tsang, Wu and Lee are merely guests making lame cameos."