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　　在爱琴海面，一架豪华游艇上，六个人在出海捕鱼，决定玩一个有趣的游戏，充满挑战和冒险。赢的人将会是最强的男人，他将获得“海上骑士”指环。

民国初年，跟随爷爷闯关东那会儿，梁虎才十九岁。一路走来，不知道走了多久，也不知道走了多远，只知道越往前走，爷爷的身体越吃不消。终于，在走到一个叫金沟的地方时，爷爷为救被胡子袭击的金二爷中弹倒地，再也没有起来。金二爷本名金义德，是金沟一带的首富，手下管着金矿的开采不说，还有几十杆一水儿德国造的长枪。爷爷死后，金二爷收留了梁虎和他的师叔、师兄弟。 一晃时间过去了八年，八年后的梁虎已经是一个二十七岁的精干小伙儿。在金二爷的着意栽培下，梁虎武艺超群、枪法神准、有勇有谋，深得金二爷器重。为此，金二爷手下一个叫大炮头的管事暗地里没少下梁虎的绊。金沟镇上有一家叫杜家烧锅的小店，店老板是一个叫香子的小寡妇。平日里，香子带着闺女丫儿酿酒开店，小本经营。遇到金二爷吩咐管家来要两坛酒，对于香子来说，那无疑是一桩利好的大买卖。 自从得了金二爷的吩咐，梁虎得空就往香子的小店跑，不是劈柴打水，就是翻窖倒缸，帮了香子的大忙不说，还博得香子的闺女丫儿的喜欢，惹得丫儿一口一个“梁虎叔”，叫得比一家人还亲。俗话说，日久生情。时间长了，梁虎逐渐喜欢上模样俊俏的香子。而且随着时间的推移，这种暗暗的喜欢变成了滚烫的爱情。但当梁虎将香子一把搂在怀里的时候，梁子分明感觉得到，香子被一种既爱又怕的矛盾心理所包围。 香子真心喜欢却明里拒绝的态度，一时让梁虎犹如霜打的茄子，没有了往日的精神。此时，金沟镇上来一个陌生的货郎子，常到香子的小店打尖小酌，一来二去，就跟梁虎混上了交情。一次，二人对饮畅谈。当货郎子说出金二爷开窑设赌，杀人越货，以无根儿之身，借香子送酒的机会，变态地折磨香子的秘密时，梁虎动了杀心，准备除掉姓金的，带香子逃出金沟。 时值二月二龙抬头。梁虎和货郎子合计，利用二月二金义德祭拜土地神的机会，带香子娘俩逃跑。事情暴露后，梁虎和香子娘俩被中途抓回，等待金义德处置。就在金义德准备动手时，梁虎擂响了山响的鼓声。听到梁虎发出的信号，货郎子带着从南山下来的、原本就是金沟的主人却被金义德强行赶走的金沟人杀将而来。一场血与火、生与死的情仇了断，金义德命丧黄泉，罪有应得，梁虎带着香子娘俩回到山东老家，将爷爷传下的梁氏大鼓发扬光大。

　　Siskel and Ebert once ran a special show entitled "Movies I'm Embarrassed to Admit I Liked." I suppose that if I composed such a list of guilty pleasures, this one would be one of them . . . but upon reflection, it's really a lot better than that. Fifteen year-old science prodigy Mitch (Gabe Jarret) is recruited by ambitious college professor William Atherton (in yet another of his patented roles as a loathsome character) to work on the professor's prize laser project, not knowing that the prof is really developing a government weapon. Along the way, Mitch is befriended by Chris (Val Kilmer), another prodigy a few years his senior who teaches the Mitch how to loosen up.
　　This could have degenerated into nothing more than just another teen revenge comedy, but there's so much more: the dialogue is laced with sharp wit there are some lovely scenes that have nothing to do with the story yet are carefully set up, almost as blackouts (e.g., Mitch goes to a lecture at which a few students have left tape recorders instead of attending later, at another lecture there are more tape recorders than students and, in a final scene, one large tape recorder gives the lecture to a room populated by nothing but other small recorders!) and throw-away scenes that make you want to stop and back up the tape (e.g., Chris off-handedly cutting a slice off a bar of solid nitrogen to make a slug for the coffee machine).
　　It's also one of the few movies to boast the presence of the memorable Michelle Meyerink -- as Jordan, the "girl-nerd" who made being smart and female something to be emulated. And there's Tears for Fears great song, "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" providing the perfect coda as the closing credits begin to roll . . . . Yes: really now, what's there to be embarrassed about?