The first comment that I must make about this movie is that it is the Hong Kong version of Red Heat, an old American Movie where a Russian cop teams up with an American cop to track down a criminal. Similarly here, except it is a communist Chinese cop joining forces with a capitalist Hong Kong cop, and the Chinese cop is female, and they are in Hong Kong to capture a drug runner who recently escaped.
I guess the interesting thing about the movie is that it focuses more on the relationship between the two cops than on any of the action. It works to become more of an odd couple, or an opposites end up attracting. It is not a tragedy per se, with us knowing that she must go back in the end and that a deep love that has developed will be destroyed, rather it is a light hearted romp where a communist, set in her ways, tries to adapt to a different environment while still trying to maintain her communist integrity.
The most interesting part of the movie is the father of the Hong Kong cop who is so right wing that he makes Hitler look like a socialist (which one can argue he was, but I won't bother). He is so right wing, that if you are left handed then you are a commie-pinko traitor and must be killed (it is never aired in such drastic language, but that is basically the idea). So when the communist cop must bunk up in the Hong Kong cop's apartment, strange things begin to happen.
This is indeed an amusing movie, not one that goes on my best seller lists, but it still is fun to watch. I guess if I was in a much better mood, I would have found it even funnier.
I guess the interesting thing about the movie is that it focuses more on the relationship between the two cops than on any of the action. It works to become more of an odd couple, or an opposites end up attracting. It is not a tragedy per se, with us knowing that she must go back in the end and that a deep love that has developed will be destroyed, rather it is a light hearted romp where a communist, set in her ways, tries to adapt to a different environment while still trying to maintain her communist integrity.
The most interesting part of the movie is the father of the Hong Kong cop who is so right wing that he makes Hitler look like a socialist (which one can argue he was, but I won't bother). He is so right wing, that if you are left handed then you are a commie-pinko traitor and must be killed (it is never aired in such drastic language, but that is basically the idea). So when the communist cop must bunk up in the Hong Kong cop's apartment, strange things begin to happen.
This is indeed an amusing movie, not one that goes on my best seller lists, but it still is fun to watch. I guess if I was in a much better mood, I would have found it even funnier.