Jian ru pan shi

The film is laughably cliche and unbelievable.

The main character always manages to arrive one second too late to move the plot forward. The cops always show up just at the right time to save the day.

It apparently took Zhang Yimou 5 years of back and forth with the censors for this film to finally come out. I don't know how much the censors are to blame, but the characters are laughably cliche, there's no complexity in their personalities, they're either total villains who are ultimately punished by the law or are complete heros with no moral qualms. A Disney movie has more complexity.

The female characters are sad, there's only one real female character, the others are just there to talk about the men. The film does not pass the Bechdel test.