1996 · comedy · period · spy
Forbidden City Cop
Directed by Vincent Kok Tak-Chiu, Stephen Chow1h 29m1996
An imperial agent gets ridiculed for his various inventions, until his supportive wife encourages him to attend a conference, which's actually a trap to kill all the doctors serving the emperor, where his crazy inventions come in handy.
Our read: Forbidden City Cop (1996) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive comedy · period · spy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, measured comedy / period, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- funny
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