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‘Detective Chinatown 1900’ Review: Chow Yun-Fat & John Cusack Join Blockbuster Franchise In Whodunnit Romp With A Cultural Message
Detective Chinatown 1900 is the fourth entry in the blockbuster franchise, and already a huge hit in China; read Deadline's review.
Previous entries in the now $1.3+ billion grossing Detective Chinatown franchise have followed mismatched duo Qin Feng (Liu), an introvert with incredible powers of deduction, and his cousin Tang Ren (Wang), a bumbling incompetent cop, as they solve murders in the immigrant Chinese neighborhoods of, respectively, Bangkok (2015), New York (2018), and Tokyo (2021). Tang Ren’s histrionic, oftentimes scatological behavior is offset by Qin Feng’s almost superhuman intuition, and director Chen Sicheng has repeatedly doffed his cap to the BBC’s hugely successful series Sherlock, not least in the vivid visualisations of Holmes’ deductive reasoning. Qin Fu is supposed to be meeting an emissary of China’s Empress Dowager on arrival, sent to catch a gang of political fugitives, but Holmes encourages his new protégé to assume his identity – apparently their names sound similar in Chinese – and investigate the Chinatown murders on his behalf.
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