‘Fight Back to School:’ A 1990s’ Hong Kong Classic

Mixing slapstick and schoolyard mayhem, this comedy action film treats chaos like a trusted companion.
‘Fight Back to School:’ A 1990s’ Hong Kong Classic
Star Chow (Stephen Chow) goes undercover as a student, in “Fight Back to School.” GJW+
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NR | 1h 40m | Action, Comedy, Crime | 1991

Hong Kong in the early 1990s had a filmmaking momentum that felt unstoppable. Legendary action director John Woo was perfecting his “gun fu style of action cinema, sending bullets and fists flying across the screen with pure abandon. Performers, like Chow Yun-fat, best known for “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” (2000), kept walking out of explosions without losing their cool.
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