Read our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy / Cookie Disclaimer. Watching the main characters run around New York trying to solve a murder mystery and landing themselves in ridiculous situations is worth watching. An epilogue suggests he’ll play a key role in the next, Tokyo-set, edition. In “Detective Chinatown 2,” the louder and dumber sequel to the 2016 sleeper hit, set in Bangkok, about a buffoonish ex-cop and his genius detective … It’s nonstop quickly becoming aggravating, but it’s also not just him; the humor contains such sequences as the protagonists infiltrating a hospital and disguising themselves as female nurses… the cringe is massive. DETECTIVE CHINATOWN 2 is a murder mystery comedy from China. Flickering Myth Rating – Film: ★ ★ / Movie: ★ ★, Robert Kojder is a member of the Chicago Film Critics Association and the Flickering Myth Reviews Editor. Detective Chinatown 2, 2018. *Correction, Aug. 10, 2015: This post originally misspelled Ben Caspere’s last name. Tang and Qin team up to solve a murder in New York's Chinatown. Disclaimer: Given how this is an ‘ending explained’ article, it will contain major spoilers for Paatal Lok and Chinatown as well. Still, it takes a lot of patience to sit through the antics of Tang. Michael Pitt also makes a special guest cameo appearance, except his line delivery is so forced and awkward it feels as if he doesn’t even want to be there, and truthfully, I can’t blame him.With that said, Detective Chinatown 2 could very well find a small audience among those that enjoy slapstick and/or offensively crude comedy. After the detectives stumble into the third murder, things suddenly get riveting when Tang’s obsesssion with feng shui helps Qin make a cognitive breakthrough. It’s a moment fans have been waiting for, to see Chloe confronted with the possibility that her close friend is actually the ruler of Hell. 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What links them is an esoteric Chinese symbol found at the scenes of the crimes. However, “Detective Chinatown 2” operates on a lower intellectual level, and even compared with Part 1, figuring out the culprit is a cinch for anyone familiar with genre conventions. 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Detective Chinatown (Chinese: 唐人街探案) is a 2015 Chinese comedy-mystery buddy film directed by Chen Sicheng and starring Wang Baoqiang and Liu Haoran. A noisy, rowdy mystery-comedy set in New York, this sequel cleverly mixes Chinese feng shui with Western detective methods. Qin (), a would-be sleuth from China, competes in a global detective contest held in New York City, where the goal is to find the missing grandson of a Chinatown mob boss.He teams with his cousin Tang (Wang Baoqiang) to investigate, but their probe soon leads to several dead bodies and puts them on the trail of a serial killer.Directed by Chen Sicheng. A private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder. Check here for new reviews, friend me on Facebook, follow my Twitter or Letterboxd, check out my personal non-Flickering Myth affiliated Patreon, or email me at MetalGearSolid719@gmail.com, Filed Under: Movies, Reviews, Robert Kojder Tagged With: Chen Sicheng, Detective Chinatown 2, Liu Haoran, Michael Pitt, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Tsumabuki Satoshi, Wang Baoqiang, Xiao Yang. In case you haven’t watched either of them, please do and then read this article. According to Towne, Polanksi wanted a tragic ending, in which Evelyn is killed. Also, the tone of the film is assuredly all over the place, but at least it does attempt to make a point about revenge by the end of its 2+ hour running time. The film has thrashed all rival hits released during Chinese New Year to climb to the top of the heap, grossing $494 million and still counting. Movie titles, images, etc. Part of what made the first movie work was the grittiness of Thailand sort of matches the two leads of the film, it really accentuates their personality and helps with the flow of the film. With Haoran Liu, Baoqiang Wang, Yang Xiao, Natasha Liu Bordizzo. Written and Directed by Chen Sicheng. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY. Movie poster for Detective Chinatown 2, which opens in China and North America on Friday. The Best and Worst Character Endings on True Detective Season 2. A budding Chinese Sherlock Holmes meets his dumbass Watson in Bangkok and solves a locked-room murder in singer-actor-director Chen Sicheng's "Detective Chinatown." Japanese A-list actor Satoshi Tsumabuki (“Rage”) stokes anticipation as conceited detective Hiroshi Noda, but exits the crime scene too soon. Every once in a while a gag that is halfway decent will come along (a certain scene combines different mascot costumes and some brawling to make for a nice effect of action and comedy), but not too far behind will be something far too down the road of outplayed stereotypes (a group of African-American students learning Chinese pulling out firearms in synchronization when a confrontation arises). Lensing by Du Jie goes for glaringly bright textures and hyperactive camera movements that are exacerbated by frenzied editing. Seven’s grandson was found dead inside a Chinatown temple, his liver ripped out while he was still alive and semi-conscious. It’s also worth noting that it functions fine as a standalone film; they are passing references to a previous woman that Feng must have stalked into oblivion during the first film (this actually leads to a nice treat for fans during the ending credits), but no important details seem to have carried over from the initial journey. When the case of New York Chinatown godfather Uncle Qi’s missing son turns into a murder investigation, the detective duo Tang and Qin team up again to hunt down the killer—this time with some help from the International Detective Alliance. Qin receives a message from cousin Tang inviting him to attend a wedding in New York. Detective Chinatown 2 paints a wildly reductive picture of contemporary America, which it populates entirely with gun-toting gang bangers, Trump lookalikes and closeted bikers. Qin, using his deductive skills, zeroes in on the murder of a white woman whose body washed up in the Hudson Bay, her kidney removed. It’s understandable if the script occasionally wants to play Feng’s lack of female charm/sexual perversion up for laughs, but there is no break from it. Qin, who knows he’s been duped into helping Tang nab the reward, nonetheless goes along with things, provoked by the contempt shown him by prickly NYPD officer Chen Ying (Natasha Liu Bordizzo, “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2”). Basically, the actual mystery portion of Detective Chinatown 2 isn’t terribly bad; it’s beyond predictable as far as who the serial killer is (the only thing the killings have in common are seemingly randomized removed organs from the deceased body), but is completely unafraid to get batshit weird with ancient Chinese evil arts. Yetian Hao'er is Yetian Hao younger brother. Strange as it sounds, this is actually one of the more fascinating aspects of True Detective's storyline.Real estate, land grabs, and willful pollution for profit make for a compelling mystery to follow (just take a look at Chinatown, one of the clear inspirations for this season's storyline), because it almost always involves an exclusive brand of seemingly untouchable criminal in … Thankfully, the film is not a touristy romp, and locations stay relevant to plot development. Those playing the large contingent of racially diverse supporting roles either overact wildly to jostle for attention, or fade out. It still has the same classic, ridiculous humor as the first one. A possible influence here is Taiwanese director-producer Chen Kuo-fu’s psycho-horror pic “Double Vision” (2002), with its combination of Taoist beliefs and Western scientific investigative models. It was released in China on 31 December 2015. Polanski’s goal is to emphasizes the meaning of how cinematography is made, and how it inspires by understanding the concept of setting, lighting, and how the image is captured. Chinatown Summary Fool Me Once… Jakes Gittes is a private investigator in L.A. You just know that things are about to get real sleazy, real fast.. A woman claiming to be Evelyn Mulwray, the wife of the L.A. water commissioner, hires Jake Gittes to see if her husband's committing adultery. Following in the footsteps of many American sequels, the filmmakers behind Detective Chinatown 2 have opted to go the route of bigger and bolder by sending the duo over from Beijing to New York City (and it’s impossible to forget the location considering the one licensed song in the film gets repeatedly played, welcoming everyone to the city with its lyrics) and giving them 7 days to solve the ritualistic murder of a Chinatown godfather’s son who has that same amount of time to outlive cancer. All else pales in outlandishness to Tang’s dressed-to-kill entrance, sporting an Afro wig, loud gold chains and darkened skin that looks suspiciously like blackface. © Copyright 2021 Variety Media, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC. Geek Culture | Movies, TV, Comic Books & Video Games. Qin identifies illegal alien Song Yi (actor-director Xiao Yang, who played a supporting role in the first instalment) as a suspect. When he arrives at the banquet, he discovers that the bride’s eclectic mix of guests consists of sleuths who top the rankings of online app Crimemaster. © 2009-2021 Flickering Myth Limited. All rights reserved. Upon arrival, he finds out Tang’s not getting married; instead, Tang wants to team up with his nephew to solve a murder mystery with a handsome monetary reward. The motive is entirely generic and the payoff to our heroes catching the culprit is laughably stupid, but the meditation transitioning to busy CGI skimming all over New York City as Qin works out some of the evidence for a new lead is flashy fun in its cheapness. Chinatown is based on Roman Polanski’s lifeworks. He serves as the obnoxious uncle to his partner in duty, the much more case focused and mannered Feng Qin (Liu Haoran) who spends his free time playing a virtual reality crime-solving app that is so exclusive you need to answer all 99 questions correctly on a test before receiving access (which doesn’t make a lick of sense in the age of the Internet where all the solutions can be cheesed, or in a silly world where attractive blue-haired computer hackers can combine random body accessories together such as wristwatches and more to build an Internet connection while locked away in a prison cell). 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