Leofwine_draca I'm not a huge fan of the films put out by mainland China, finding them flawed in various ways: either bogged down in appalling CGI, spoilt by unwanted propaganda, or packed with the lamest comedy imaginable. I thought the same would be true of DETECTIVE CHINATOWN, but it turns out to be a lot more enjoyable than I had hoped. The story follows a young, bland cop, played by a slightly wooden Liu Haoran, who is reejcted by the police and who heads off with his bizarre uncle to solve a murder case in Thailand. Said uncle is played by Wang Baoqiang, who I previously saw in the likes of BLIND SHAFT and KUNG FU KILLER, and he turns out to be perfectly cast. He's eccentric, over the top, very energetic, and most of all, funny. His character is pretty outrageous but he makes the film enjoyable and his long-running feud with a rival leads to the movie's greatest moments. Some of it is slow and sappy, but the lowbrow slapstick scenes are fun and there's some Jackie Chan-style action and a scene or two borrowed from THE RAID 2 which are very entertaining.

liyiren This is not just a funny comedy, but also a well-made film with great quality. The actions,funny scenes,dialogues were orchestrated in such a great way that it drew every second of my attention.Wang Baoqiang did a great job in playing a character that is both silly and witty, wild and cowardly, someone you want to slap in the face but also give a dollar out of pity. I usually justify things in a quantitative way. And here is the math:The average driving speed of the vehicles in the movie is about 20% of the avg. driving speed in 007 Spectre; but the car chase scenes are five times more intense with the cars looking way faster that those in 007 Spectre.My opinion might be biased since I was able to "fully" understand the movie with my full Chinese proficiency, and I also thought Spectre was the worst 007 movie which totally wasted two hours of my life. Anyway, I thought this movie was a job well done.

subxerogravity I thought the movie was very, very funny.It had some very good jokes in it. You get nervous seeing comedies in a different language than your own and wonder if you'll get the jokes, but the jokes were a simplistic base of comedy that everyone can laugh atPlus several of the jokes were visual slap stick that was just universal. In fact the movie all together was visually simulating, which showed Thailand's Chinatown to be a very colorful place.The two main actors in this were an exceptional team as well. The movie is about a young man who fails out of the police academy despite his exceptional skills in observation (he plays the straight man). TY get over his depression he visits an uncle who lives in Thailand (he plays the screw ball) Together they have to solve a murder while looking for a gangster's gold. It was a really fun, entertaining film to watch.

BasicLogic Another terrible and ridiculous garbage movie from China, wasted lot of money to shoot it in Thailand. The screenplay was just ridiculous and absurd to the extreme, the casting, Jesus wept, so bad, the acting, I really can't stop my head and neck to shake horizontally. This kind of movies would only be appealed to viewers with low I.Q. and poor education. By keep watching this kind of movies would undoubtedly damage your brain cells, not just your wallet.After the Chinese enjoyed the sudden prosperous wealth in almost every trade you could imagine, lot of people have become so rich, but their tastes simply failed to catch up with their fortune, they just wanted to become 'Investor', or "Movie Producer" and printed such newly added titles on their business cards. They blindly threw their easily earned money once they were approached by some con-artists in the Chinese movie industries before even understood what is what. Therefore, so many media companies jumped into the cesspool to produce movies either trying to release on the big silver screens or on the on-line PC monitors with so many bad screenplays, bad so-called directors and actors. The result is so many barely watchable, so stupid, ridiculous, messy movies were churned out monthly and yearly. The only trick was to sign up certain famous actors, male or female, to be the leading role and put their names on the posters for the selling point. These actors just shamelessly jumped on the money train to make more money while they were still either hot or popular.This god-awful farce is just like what I have pointed out on the above. They signed up a still popular ugly actor to be the main character, an absolutely unbelievable Chinese Thai police detective in Bangkok Chinatown, then with a mix of clowns and jerks to be the supporting characters, adding another young lamer to be the kinfolk of the clown-like Chinatown detective, finally patched up such god-forbidden farce.You have to become a complete idiot to watch this or, you don't have to suffer such transformation since you are already a moron with a complete fried brain, then both of such pathetic beings might enjoy this farce and keep laughing non-stop. Consider this review is a sincere warning with goodwill.