1981 · comedy · hui-brothers · satire
Security Unlimited
Directed by Michael Hui Koon-Man1h 30m1981
This is a story about a security guard agency and its three agents-Michael, Sam and Ricky. Sam and Ricky are delivering a large sum of money to a bank when a robbery takes place under their nose. after a series of hair-raising about hilarious chases, the agents get their men. With Michael and Sam giving their reward money to Ricky. They live haphazardly ever after.
Our read: Security Unlimited (1981) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded comedy · hui-brothers · satire entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle comedy / hui-brothers, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- intimate
- funny
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