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Stephen Chow Sing Chi Anita Yuen Law Kar Ying Pauline Chan Joe Cheng Cho |
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Poon Kin Kwan |
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Stephen Chow Sing Chi Roman Cheung Lee Lik Chi Vincent Kok |
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Charles Heung |
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Stephen Chow Sing Chi Lee Lik Chi |
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| From Beijing With Love |
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| AKA : From China with Love |
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| Year : 1994 Reviewer : Andrew Saroch |
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Chow Sing-Chi's in an awkward situation. In Hong Kong, he can barely put a foot wrong, with his incessant Cantonese delivery having the audiences rolling in the aisles. However, non-Chinese audiences are often left cold and bemused by his humour but he has made various films which manage to bridge the gap between the two audiences; 'From Beijing With Love' sits near the top of this list.

Whereas the Austin Powers films choose (unsuccessfully in my opinion) to parody James Bond in an almost infantile and certainly crude way, 'From Beijing With Love' puts the laughs within a real narrative. Indeed there's some nicely executed action set-pieces alongside the excellent comedy of the film. Chow takes one of his usual personas - the bumbling bumpkin with a peculiar skill - as a mainland butcher. After a secret operation goes wrong, this James Bond wannabe is called out of retirement to take charge of operations. Aided by his trusty meat cleaver and a fellow agent (Anita Yuen), he sees to foiling the plans of the eastern version of 'The Man With The Golden Gun', however, is his assistant hiding something?

Chow puts in a fine performance and is well-matched by the always-charming Anita Yuen. The humour is sharp and often hits the mark which therefore makes this one of his best and certainly most accessible films. |
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| Distributor : Universe |
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| Region : 0 (NTSC) |
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| Running Time : 84 mins |
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| Video : |
| Letterboxed at 1.85:1. The picture for this disc is of very good quality, especially in comparison to a lot of the older Chow Sing Chi flicks. There are some signs of minor wear on the print but nothing major and this is easily the definitive way to own the film. |
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| Audio : |
| Remixed 5.1 Dolby Cantonese and Mandarin with removable English and Chinese subtitles. |
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| Extras : |
- Info on Chow Sing Chi and Anita Yuen
- The theatrical trailer for this film |
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