Detective Chinatown 1900

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notch4rlotte

The racial politics of this movie are fascinating. A Chinese film about American Sinophobia (racism against China/Chinese) in the first year of the 20th century.       The white characters are cartoonishly racist, which is funny. Similar to the white characters in the…

Professordanger

Ignoring the horribly mismatched tone, abhorrent production values the film very proudly boasts throughout its monstrously elongated runtime and utterly abysmal final message that closes the proceedings… I can really only say that Chow Yun-fat has aged like the finest of…

Daniel Shillito

never thought id see Chinese people in brown face playing native Americans in the year of our lord 2025

Jam

I watched as much of the Detective Chinatown series as I could prior to watching this film. Unfortunately the 3rd movie is locked behind regional restrictions, despite its $686m box office. I would really like to check it out, but I'm not going to bother with VPN…

BeeRye

Nothing worse than when the murderer is the most obvious person.

zac.blonded

This movie is massively tonally confused. One minute it will be hitting you with whacky slapstick comedy, the next it will be exploring the heavy subject of racism in America. Both tones work in opposition to each other and undermine the effectiveness of either. It also…

Ryan Petrie

这两颗星给的周润发，他的演技和英语口语适合去演讲述真正剖析并展示第一代华人移民在美的苦难与无奈的剧情电影，而不是在这种悬疑部分极少搞笑部分硬尬煽情部分生硬的圈钱片里贡献演技。印第安人部分极为刻板印象且走马观花般硬搬部落元素，然而对剧情推动为零；全是女性受害者暂且不提，又在搞什么无比男凝的恋爱背景和剧情推动所需的悬疑元素，每年电影都要搞一波是吧？我若真要了解华人工人群体和唐人街历史我可以去读移民文学和历史书，我若真想看悬疑推理电影我可以在私人影院选经典电影安心享受，所所以这电影最起码不是我所需要的期待的享受的，自然电影零星发哥两星就是我最后的态度…

Dong Luo

Entertaining and ridiculous and also heart-felt. It was refreshing to watch some Chinese propaganda instead of the American and British propaganda that usually graces my screen!

skyebean