Soup simple

San qiang pai an jing qi (A woman, a gun and a noodle shop)

(2010)

For the most part, this is best when it hews closest to its source, Blood Simple. Two exceptions: the kung-fu noodle-dough throwing early, and the locations throughout, colorful hills and valleys as gorgeous as anything in the U.S. Southwest. Some annoying broad comedy gets in the way of both the creepiness and the humor that the Coens put there in the first place; worst offense is the conversion of Meurice, the coolest character of the original, into Zippy the Pinhead.

All is forgiven in the climax, however, where the arrow assault on the lovers actually improves upon the original.