Forbidden City Cop
R, 89 min.
Directed by Stephen Chow, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Stephen Chow, Carina Lau, Carmen Lee, Indra Leech.

Hong Kong’s biggest box-office star, Stephen Chow, wrote, directed, and stars in this period comedy. He plays an imperial-era policeman who can’t compete with the better superheroes on the royal force. The setup provides abundant opportunities for Chow’s comic riffs, which were last seen in Austin in this series’ highly popular God of Cookery.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.