The young man Huang Feihong wants to make a living in Guangzhou. With the help of Zhou Shisan and Lu Yibai, he is finally allowed to take an exam in Guangzhou, and he may be able to study abroad. But after he gets there, he finds the intrigue on the exam in Guangzhou set by the conservatives in the court led by Eunuch Hai who wants to abort the Studying Abroad Campaign launched by the Westernization Movement.
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Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.
It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...
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