I was really on the fence about this one. As much as I love Stephen Chow, From Beijing With Love was one of his worst films. It does poke fun at the James Bond series, which is easy to do if you think about how silly some of the conventions seem in those films, but Beijing really fails to do much else. If you’re already familiar with Chow and his style of comedy then you already know what to expect anyway.

There are some genuinely funny moments in Beijing here and there, but for the most part it’s pretty cut-and-dry. You can skip over this in favor of some other Chow parodies that function much better.