Ranking All Of Director Stephen Chow’s Movies
“What are Stephen Chow’s Best Movies?” We looked at all of Chow’s directed filmography and ranked them against one another to answer that very question!
We took all of the movies directed by Stephen Chow and looked at his Rotten Tomato Critic, Rotten Tomato User, Metacritic, Metacritic User, IMDB, and Letterboxd scores, ranking them against one another to see which movies came out on top. The movies are ranked in our list below based on which movies have the highest overall score between all 6 review sites in comparison with all of the other movies by the same director. The process is all very scientific with no flaws at all.
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The Top Film’s Of Stephen Chow
10 ) CJ7 (2008)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 5
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 10
- Metacritc Critic Score: 5
- Metacritic User Score: 5
- IMDB User Review Score: 9
- Letterboxd User Score: 10
Ti, a really poor construction worker that struggles to keep his son, Dicky, in private school, mistakes an orb he finds in a junkjard for a toy which proves to be much, much more once the young boy starts to play with it.
9 ) Love on Delivery (1994)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 7
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 8
- Metacritc Critic Score: 6
- Metacritic User Score: 6
- IMDB User Review Score: 7
- Letterboxd User Score: 2
Ho Kam-An is a love struck dim-sum delivery boy who falls for a beautiful judo student. After being humiliated by her boyfriend, Ho Kam-An goes out and seeks the services of an aging kung-fu master who teaches him a half ass style of kung fu “Karate Kid” style. After actually learning how to fight using this style (much to the master’s surprise) he dresses up like Garfield and beats up the boyfriend of the beautiful judo student. But he’s challenged to a fight by the master’s former foe. Is Ho Kam-An up to the challenge?
8 ) Forbidden City Cop (1996)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 7
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 5
- Metacritc Critic Score: 6
- Metacritic User Score: 6
- IMDB User Review Score: 6
- Letterboxd User Score: 5
Set in Imperial China, Stephen Chiau plays Ling Ling Fat, one of the elite Emperor’s guards in the Forbidden City. However unlike his colleagues he doesn’t know anything about Kung Fu or other martial-arts, but instead uses his time to make futuristic inventions. So when the emperor is kidnapped and the world most beautiful geisha comes to town Fat has to use his brain to get things done.
7 ) The Mermaid (2016)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 1
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 9
- Metacritc Critic Score: 2
- Metacritic User Score: 3
- IMDB User Review Score: 10
- Letterboxd User Score: 9
A playboy business tycoon, Liu Xuan, purchases the Green Gulf, a wildlife reserve, for a sea reclamation project, and uses sonar technology to get rid of the sea life in the area. Unknown to him, the Green Gulf is the home of merpeople, and the sonar has caused many of them to succumb to illness or die. Xuan’s business ventures in the area are threatened when he crosses paths with the mermaid, Shan, who is sent to avenge her people.
5 ) From Beijing with Love (1994)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 6
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 2
- Metacritc Critic Score: 6
- Metacritic User Score: 6
- IMDB User Review Score: 5
- Letterboxd User Score: 5
After a giant dinosaur skull is stolen, the head of the Chinese secret police decides to assign the case to the force’s most incompetent reject: a rural butcher who stands around all day drinking martinis (shaken, not stirred). With a trunkload of insanely useless gadgets and a contact who constantly tries to kill him, the young agent must locate the skull and find out just what is going on here.
5 ) King of Comedy (1999)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 7
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 6
- Metacritc Critic Score: 6
- Metacritic User Score: 6
- IMDB User Review Score: 3
- Letterboxd User Score: 2
Wan Tin-Sau is an actor who cannot seem to catch a break, since his only professional jobs are limited to being a movie extra. As well as being an actor, he is also the head of his village’s community center.
4 ) Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons (2013)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 1
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 7
- Metacritc Critic Score: 3
- Metacritic User Score: 4
- IMDB User Review Score: 8
- Letterboxd User Score: 5
In a world plagued by demons who cause great human suffering, young demon hunter Xuan Zang risks his all to conquer a water demon, a pig demon and the demon of all demons, Sun Wukong.
3 ) The God of Cookery (1996)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 7
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 3
- Metacritc Critic Score: 6
- Metacritic User Score: 6
- IMDB User Review Score: 2
- Letterboxd User Score: 2
The God of Cookery, a brilliant chef who sits in judgement of those who would challenge his title, loses his title when a jealous chef reveals him to be a con-man and humiliates him publicly. As this new chef takes on the God of Cookery’s role, the former God tries to pull himself back on top again, to challenge his rival and find once and for all who is the true God of Cookery.
2 ) Shaolin Soccer (2001)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 3
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 4
- Metacritc Critic Score: 3
- Metacritic User Score: 1
- IMDB User Review Score: 3
- Letterboxd User Score: 5
A young Shaolin follower reunites with his discouraged brothers to form a soccer team using their martial art skills to their advantage.
1 ) Kung Fu Hustle (2004)
Review Website Ranks:
- Rotten Tomatoes Critic: 3
- Rotten Tomatoes Users: 1
- Metacritc Critic Score: 1
- Metacritic User Score: 2
- IMDB User Review Score: 1
- Letterboxd User Score: 1
Set in Canton, China in the 1940s, the story revolves in a town ruled by the Axe Gang, Sing who desperately wants to become a member. He stumbles into a slum ruled by eccentric landlords who turns out to be the greatest kung-fu masters in disguise. Sing’s actions eventually cause the Axe Gang and the slumlords to engage in an explosive kung-fu battle. Only one side will win and only one hero will emerge as the greatest kung-fu master of all.
Stephen Chow’s Best Movies
Stephen Chow Review Website Filmography Rankings
| Film | RT Critic | RT User | MC Critic | MC User | IMDB | Letterboxd | Overal Rank |
| Kung Fu Hustle | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Shaolin Soccer | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
| The God of Cookery | 7 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons | 1 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 4 |
| From Beijing with Love | 6 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| King of Comedy | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| The Mermaid | 1 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 7 |
| Forbidden City Cop | 7 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 8 |
| Love on Delivery | 7 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 9 |
| CJ7 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 10 |
