Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Precisett This movie is magnificent!

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Scott LeBrun This pulp crime fiction, based on a story by Harry Stephen Keeler, is zippy enough and atmospheric enough to make it an okay view. Modern viewers may wince at the level of political incorrectness on display, but sometimes the ignorant characters are properly made to feel embarrassed. Front and centre is horror star Bela Lugosi in the dual role of nefarious Fu Manchu style Chinese villain Fu Wong, and kindly shopkeeper Li See. He wants to obtain the "twelve coins of Confucius" in order to have ultimate power. Following a trail of dead bodies is obnoxious reporter Jay Barton (Wallace Ford), whose investigation leads him to the mysterious Mr. Wong.Old time movies like this clearly were never meant to be great cinema, but just simple, straightforward, amusing programmers that typically clocked in at barely over an hour. And it IS pretty amusing, provided you know what to expect. Elements of intrigue and suspense are heavily contrasted against a lot of wise ass comedy. Ford, certainly, had put the patent on the sort of character that he plays here, and guys like Barton popped up time and again in such tales. The script is actually pretty funny at times, and with the amount of quips that he utters, it's true that a role like Barton would be a natural for a comedy actor like Chevy Chase.Lugosi is great fun as always, no matter if his accent rarely sounds like anything other than Hungarian. Ford is a hoot, as is the pretty and tough talking Arline Judge. She plays Peg, his leading lady. E. Alyn Warren is good as a Chinese secret agent, Lotus Long is lovely as Wongs' niece "Moonflower", and Robert Emmett O'Connor is spot on in a deliberately stereotypical portrait of an old Irish beat cop.Although ultimately forgettable, this offers enough laughs and irreverence to make it pretty easy to take.Five out of 10.

fwdixon This isn't the Mr. Wong made famous by Boris Karloff a few years later but stars Bela Lugosi as the titular hero. Featuring Wallace Ford as a wisecracking reporter so popular back in the 30's, the plot revolves around Bela's trying to get the 12 gold coins of Confucius so he can become the ruler of a province in China. Bela makes little to no attempt to disguise his thick Hungarian accent, even when speaking in pidgin English, and the result is rather humorous. There's a lot of milling around on the typically cheap, tiny Monogram sets and the dialog is pretty lame too. My "B" Movie Meter: 4* (add one star if you are a die-hard Lugosi fanatic)

Witchfinder General 666 William Nigh's "The Mysterious Mr. Wong" of 1934 starring the great Bela Lugosi is certainly no highlight in Lugosi's career, but it definitely is an entertaining and occasionally very funny flick, and fans of pulp movies from the old days as well as my fellow Bela-fans should give it a try. This is actually not really a horror flick, it is more of a murder mystery with quite a bunch of comedy elements. Lugosi was, as always, a terrific choice to play the villainous Mr. Wong, although his Eastern European accent sounds pretty strange for a Chinese character.Several residents of LA's Chinatown are mysteriously murdered, and the police are convinced that these murders have occurred due to gang warfare between Chinese crime triads. When reporter Jason Barton (Wallace Ford) starts to investigate himself, however, several clues give the impression that the murders might also be somehow connected with twelve gold coins descending from Confucius himself...The suspense in "The Mysterious Mr Wong" is not very intense, but the film is still worth watching and made in an interesting style. Bela Lugosi, without doubt one of the greatest Horror icons of all-time, is always great to watch, and the film has some very funny moments. The actual 'hero' character, the reporter Jason Baton played by Wallace Ford, is actually an arrogant and ignorant moron, who constantly makes fun of Chinese people. I'm not sure if it was intentional to make him look like an idiot, or if it was just widely accepted for a hero character to constantly make fun of the members of another ethnic group in these days. I guess that director Nigh intended to depict Barton's character as kind of corny, especially due to certain scenes, in which the reporter talks to Chinese characters in a very stereotypical and twitting Chinese accent just to be answered in fluent and proper English. Furthermore, the White characters constantly refer to Chinese people as 'Chinamen' (which was probably a standard term back then). I am really not sure if this film is either a bit racist, or if it is actually making fun of White people's racism, but I tend to the latter, since there actually are many 'good' Chines characters, and especially because most Chinese characters act a lot smarter than the White characters in the movie. The depiction of the Chinese is certainly stereotypical, but it's not necessarily racist, as the only intelligent characters in this movie are actually Chinese. Leaving these aspects aside, the movie has some real classic moments, and it is of course full of secret passages and dungeons as well as a secret torture chamber. I recommend this movie to all my fellow fans of the great Bela Lugosi, it is really fun to watch although certainly not on of his highlights. In case you don't know Lugosi yet, I recommend to watch his masterpieces, such as Tod Browning's "Dracula" (1931), or Victor Halperlin's "White Zombie" (1932) before watching this, since movies like these really reveal the genius of Bela Lugosi. Lugosi is always worth the time, however, and I warmly recommend "The Mysterious Mr. Wong" to his fans. Definitely fun and worth watching! 5/10

Hitchcoc I've always been intrigued with Bela Lugosi. It's been an ambition of mine to see all the films he made. This effort must have been done to capitalize on his star power. For whatever reason, he (as Mr. Wong), is collecting Confucian coins. Men who possess them are being murdered and Wong's henchmen bring the coins to him. A silly reporter and his girlfriend get wrapped up in the case and find their way to Wong's lair. Leading up to a somewhat interesting conclusion, are a series of lame, tiresome interactions within the evil man's lair. Lugosi looks ridiculous and speaks with that heavy European accent, and, of course, Hollywood's version of an Asian. There is a lot of political incorrectness and Chinese stereotyping. It's interesting that so many movies have a criminal genius who does stupid things and gets himself caught. Even though a murderer, Mr. Wong doesn't kill the person who is the most danger to him. Then, again, it's all based on the cliffhanger and killing off the hero wouldn't be much fun.