1994 · action · comedy · martial-arts
Drunken Master II
Directed by Lau Kar-leung1h 31m1994
Set around the turn of the century in China, the White Lotus Society plots to put the next Emperor on the throne. To do this they want their protege to marry the Princess Sun Yu who possesses an important jade ring. They dispatch Yueng Kwan to fetch her. However, Yueng Kwan is a patriot, working for the revolutionary forces of Sun Yat Sen. He abducts Sun Yu and finds refuge with the father of the future hero Wong Fei Hung.
Our read: Drunken Master II (1994) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded action · comedy · martial-arts entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, extreme action / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- intense
- funny
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