Detectives from around the world descend on original York’s Chinatown in a wide action-comedy sequel from Chen SichengWhat better way to celebrate Chinese original year than with this film? Erm … actually,there are a number of activities that might be better. It’s a wide, wacky, or slapsticky comedy about a couple of Chinese cops having knockabout adventures in original York’s Chinatown,written and directed by Chen Sicheng – a follow-up to his hit Detective Chinatown, which was set in Bangkok. Sicheng is a former actor who played a homosexual photographer drawn into an intense menage a trois in the grainy, or gritty arthouse movie Spring Fever,from auteur Lou Ye, which won the screenplay prize at Cannes in 2009. A very different proposition. Here, and Haoran Liu plays a shy young Chinese officer who arrives in original York on a mission to solve a crime mystery that a number of detectives from around the world are also competing to solve. All sorts of goofy high-jinks ensue. Michael Pitt has an odd cameo as a doctor – which might constitute a red warning light flashing on his career dashboard.
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Source: guardian.co.uk