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Wang Baoqiang
Ah Gui
Liu Haoran
Qin Fu
Chow Yun-Fat
Bai Xuanling
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Zheng Shiliang
Zhang Xincheng
Bai Zhenbang
Yue Yunpeng
Fei Yanggu
John Cusack
Grant
Tai Bo
Uncle Si
Yutian Wang
Ren Wu
Zhang Aoyue
Ren Liu
Scotty Cox
Weiman
Sam Hayden-Smith
Lance
Sean Kohnke
Marston
AJ Donnelly
Thomas Lawrence
Wei Xiang
Jin Lingfu
Yin Zheng
Cheif Fengma
Anastasia Shestakova
Alice
Xi Meijuan
Empress Dowager Cixi
Li Chengru
Xiao Shenyang
Chinatown Swindler
Joyce Feng
Ghost's Mother
Sang Ping
Cao Rui
Wang Hao
Chen Chuang
Jiang Yi
Vanda Margraf
Princess Dada
Pierre Bourdaud
Irish Goon
Darren Grosvenor
Senator Bruce
Eric Heise
Mayor George William
Temur Mamisashvili
Gang Leader
Andrew Charles Stokes
Sherlock Holmes
Anita Yoo
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A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on Sat Feb 01 2025

At times this is actually quite a fun spoof along the lines of "Sherlock Holmes" meets "Charlie Chan" by way of "High Noon" but for the most part it's a mess of a film that goes on for far too long. With the Manchu court facing the great powers we saw in "55 Days at Peking" (1963) the Empress Dowager dispatches her finest officer to San Francisco to track down a traitor. As it happens, the Holmesian "Fu" (Haoran Liu) is also in that very city on a quest for the killer of the daughter of senator "Grant" (John Cusack). Quite swiftly his investigation and the imperial mission start to overlap as t...