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From Beijing with Love (國產凌凌漆, 1994) is a Hong Kong action comedy you can watch online on iFILM — co-directed by and starring Stephen Chow in a full-throttle parody of James Bond that treats the spy genre as raw material for demolition.
A once-elite secret agent is now working as a village butcher. When a rare dinosaur skull is stolen, the agency drags him back to Hong Kong for one more mission. His contact has been ordered by a corrupt boss to kill him on arrival. Love, naturally, disrupts that arrangement.
Chow takes every Bond convention — the gadgets, the double agents, the suave mission briefing — and runs each one straight off a cliff. The gags land not because they're subtle but because Chow commits completely. For fans of the anarchic Hong Kong comedies of the nineties, this one delivers from the first scene to the last. Watch From Beijing with Love (1994) online on iFILM.
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