YES, MADAM

Denim cuties!!!!!!

The story is simple! Michelle Yeoh and Cynthia Rothrock are partners in a case that involve three bumbling crooks named after various anti-inflammatories, a kingpin and his hitman. Moving on. 

Rothrock fights a naked man and Yeoh arrests a separate naked man by literally smushing his dick in between the pages of a book. Tsui Hark dodges gangsters in his tiny apartment using countless traps and secret passageways that I have a hard time believing weren't designed by Buster Keaton himself. The Lucky Stars crew, almost without reason show up and immediately launch into a rapey set-piece with the busty nurse (at their NURSING HOME!!!) but it ends up just being a ploy to get their hands on some chicken. James Tien is our bad guy who's always smokin' a pipe, laughs like a maniac and is introduced in a swivel chair. Broken glass and broken bones everywhere set to a Carpenterish score. Yeoh and Rothrock just kick UNHOLY ASS here as they beat the living shit out of every man who cross their path. These ladies jump from the ground and land in splits on pianos and walls. It's total mayhem.

Action direction is shared by Corey Yuen Kwai and Mang Hoi. The fluidity and grace of the human body is exaggerated so gorgeously by using the HOT HOT HOT PERFECT PERFECT PERFECT fashion of the 80s -- draping oxfords, large billowy pants, and loose blazers. The film and it's stars move blindingly fast and is so ~sumptuously~ colorful and every scene seems to be laughing at every other film that spends time on anything else. It's exactly what I want every movie to look like. 1980 was a good year so I hear!

My favorite drapes in cinema

mmm chef's kiss

Dubbed version available on youtube

**Seen in theatre 1 at NWFF, After Hours