1994 · comedy · action · parody
From Beijing with Love
Directed by Stephen Chow, Lee Lik-Chi1h 24m1994
A Chinese secret agent travels to Hong Kong to reclaim a dinosaur fossil but experiences hilarious incidents because of his incompetence.
Our read: From Beijing with Love (1994) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive comedy · action · parody entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured comedy / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- inventive
- funny
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