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U-Man 2002
Sam Lee and Anthony Wong play undercover cops looking for loot stolen by Lam Suet (sporting a full head of curly black hair) in a Catholic girls school. Sam dresses up as a girl with a neck brace (after disguising himself as Osama bin Laden in the prologue), Anthony as a priest. Wong appears to have modeled his performance on a combination of Beavis (bleached blonde hair) and Butt-head (everything else). There are some hijinks, but it's mostly just a…
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Heaven and Earth 1994
Only in Golden Age Hong Kong could you find such a bizarre amalgam of white elephant pretentiousness, slapdash screenwriting (blatantly ripping off De Palma's Untouchables), gorgeous imagery (shot by Mark Lee Ping-bing!), and absolutely insane and brutal violence.
Andy Lau gave 40,000 feet of almost expired film left over from the shooting of this to Fruit Chan, which he then used to make Made in Hong Kong.
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Nightmare Alley 2021
There's a vibe here, but it's weirdly lifeless. Too much prestige, not enough noir, I think.
