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I Love Maria |
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You could think of this as a live-action Hong Kong version of a Japanese superhero cartoon (the best Power Rangers picture ever made) or as The Three Stooges Meet RoboCop. Either way, it's a mind-boggler. The action work is amazingly fast and dense, featuring giant transformer-style 'bots battling sexy flying lady 'bots who sometimes get their wires fetchingly crossed. Sally Yeh (the gold digger in Peking Opera Blues) plays the evil cyborg Maria, who runs a gang of crooks; her new boyfriend is the movie's Rotwang-Strangelove figure, a black-clad new-wave weirdo who believes that "perfect order is only found in machines." Tsui Hark and John Sham are the bumbling cops fighting to defend humanity. As usual when Tsui's involved, even when he isn't officially one of the directors, the film is promiscuously inventive. It's crowded with cool-looking junk and edited at such a breakneck clip that the action is often hard to follow. There are jokes about eating dog meat and a giant robot that swoops around the skyscrapers, hunting down pesky humans. The overall effect is of A Chinese Ghost Story gone high-tech, amped up to the point of no return. --David Chute
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