Liebesgrüsse aus Peking (1994)
10KLiebesgrüsse aus Peking: Directed by Stephen Chow, Lik-Chi Lee. With Stephen Chow, Anita Yuen, Kar-Ying Law, Kam-Kong Wong. An incompetent 007-wannabe is sent to locate a stolen dinosaur skull.
“FROM BEIJING WITH LOVE is a fun and low budget scattershot spoof of the James Bond films, Hong Kong style. Itu0026#39;s an outing for star, writer, and director Stephen Chow, who brings his quirky eccentricity to all three roles: this is the type of film that can have cheesy romance in one scene, violent death and murder in the next, and mix it up in a plot absolutely chock full of humour from film references to slapstick to some quite surreal moments.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eChow plays an ordinary butcher from the mainland who has a second life as a secret agent. When a dinosaur skull is stolen (this film came out after JURASSIC PARK) he is tasked with tracking it down, beginning a fraught relationship with female aide Anita Yuen (who is very good). The twosome face internal conflict and lots of low rent action scenes, most of which are rather funny. Thereu0026#39;s a Jaws clone and Pauline Chan as a hot femme fatale. The low budget is very apparent in the staging and occasionally in the special effects, but overall the film works very well indeed and I had something of a ball with it. Sure, itu0026#39;s not as polished as the bigger budgeted likes of SHAOLIN SOCCER and KUNG FU HUSTLE, but it always entertains.”
