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  Review by Joe ★★★½ 1

  God help me, I like this stupid shit, kind of a Matrix-Ghostbusters-MIB riff as made for the Hong Kong Disney Channel. Goofy as hell, but stylish and funny in the Wilson Yip tradition, and by the time they got to the part where the old mentor was burning up paper swords and hammers so they could be used as weapons in the ghost world I just wanted more.

  When this inevitably gets watched by some Hollywood producer who decides it would be good for a remake, it will be two and a half hours long, star Jai Courtney and Armie Hammer, cost $300 million to make, and its crushing box office failure will be used as an example of people not liking movies anymore. Oh, and it will actually be kind of good.

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  Review by Eltopo68 ★★★

  This would have gotten a higher rating if the percentage of ghost fight scenes was equal to the amount of melodrama, but the latter took up a huge chunk of the running time. Don't get me wrong. I love me some maudlin Hong Kong sentimentality, but this needed at least one more flaming witch wire-fu fighting Nichols Tse to kick this up a notch. I will freely admit that I got a little teary eyes at the whole reincarnated kid plot line, but then a terrible love ballad followed it up and then I was back waiting for more ghost busting. The fight scenes were also a little tepid, which is a surprise considering this is from director Wilson Yip…

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  Review by ashton ★★★★ 2

  I cannot believe this actually happened in 2002.

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  Review by Juniper_girl

  finally watched this movie which has nicholas tse cosplaying the crow, a ghost swimming with sperm cells, the most funny/traumatic car accident with a kid, shu qi's husband, a ghost dressed for a rave...
  Hong Kong movies are so unserious and i love it

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  Review by Wonggifs ★★★★

  About 70% excellent quirky comedy, and about 30% fairly rotten early ‘00s post-Matrix action schlock. Wilson Yip’s spiritual successor to Magic Cop has some real balls to cast Nic Tse in the Lam Ching Ying role, but it works. Tse plays it perfectly straight while the zaniness ensues, and it’s the juxtaposition that makes it all so funny. The succession of sight gags, non-sequiturs and quips are genuinely laugh out loud funny, especially when contrasted with Tse acting like he’s in a serious movie.

  The action is all kinds of terrible, with rapid-fire editing obscuring what may be decent choreography, dated CGI and floaty wire work. It’s not the point of the movie though, so it’s easy enough to let…

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  Review by Filipe Furtado ★★★

  Wilson Yip stayed most of the early 00's slowly moving from his early character based genre work (Bio Zombie, Juliet in Love) to poor man's Benny Chan (pick your fave solid but overrated among HK fans Donnie Yen vehicle). This supernatural buddy cop film has a heavy debt to Chan's Gen X Cops films from cast to style, but keeps some of the offbeat favor that marked Yip as a director to watch. It is a perfect example of slick HK formula on early 00s making up in weird sideline touvhes what it lacks in commitment.

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  Review by Simon Abrams ★★★

  I have a soft spot for broad Hong Kong horror-comedy. Don't judge me.

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  Review by spookyTHING

  I genuinely don't understand anything I just watched. Was it cool, entertaining, life changing? I honestly can't tell you what a single part of this film is about. A kid gets fucking run over by 2 cars and walks it off so there's that I guess. The rest is either really weird fights or like a soap opera comedy drama skit show. The most huh what film I've seen so far.

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  Review by NoelleW ★★★

  “A couple of psychics (Nicholas Tse, Stephen Fung)—“

  *smashes the play button*

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  Review by woKaaa ★★★

  More movies need to incorporate a flying wrestle boxing pool scene

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  Review by zesfinkas ★★★

  2002 is probably the most 2001 film I’ve ever seen. The amount of ridiculousness we have to accept within the first ten minutes is monumental and new ghost rules keep on getting introduced even up until the finale. What this film lacks in sense, it makes up for vastly with sheer charisma. Nicholas Tse and Stephen Fung have effortless chemistry and their bromance is palpable. It’s just such a sweet movie.

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  Review by bailey ★★★

  came for the little boy getting hit by two cars, stayed for the matrix ghost fights. what is the tone here? what kind of movie is this? only in HK baby