Centre, from left: Liu Haoran, Wang Baoqiang and Xiao Yang in a still from Detective Chinatown 2 (category IIA; Mandarin, English), directed by Chen Sicheng.
Centre, from left: Liu Haoran, Wang Baoqiang and Xiao Yang in a still from Detective Chinatown 2 (category IIA; Mandarin, English), directed by Chen Sicheng.

review | Detective Chinatown 2 film review: frenetic comedy sequel takes a wildly reductive picture of contemporary America

Chen Sicheng’s sequel about a bashful sleuth lured to New York milks cheap laughs from men dressing up, stealing a horse or dropping their trousers in an America full of gun-toting gang bangers, Trump lookalikes and closeted bikers

Centre, from left: Liu Haoran, Wang Baoqiang and Xiao Yang in a still from Detective Chinatown 2 (category IIA; Mandarin, English), directed by Chen Sicheng.
Centre, from left: Liu Haoran, Wang Baoqiang and Xiao Yang in a still from Detective Chinatown 2 (category IIA; Mandarin, English), directed by Chen Sicheng.
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