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A man is hired by a group of people he believes to be gangsters to escort a briefcase from America to Hong Kong. When he arrives, however, his contact is nowhere to be found.
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"Director Wayne Wang's return to modern Hong Kong (the Final Frontier at the edge of China) is a scattershot quest for cultural identity in the Wild Wild East, spiced with casual displays of scatology and copraphogy (illustrating the lengths to which traditional Chinese will go to maintain face). The ersatz plot line, in which a frustrated currier fails to deliver a briefcase to a mysterious crime lord, is little more than incohesive filler interrupting a series of mock-documentary encounters with various local characters, in episodes that might have been more effective if they were genuin..."
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The US distributor shunned the MPAA's decision to grant the film an X rating and, instead of censoring it for an R, released it to theaters unrated. However, marketing for the film self-proclaimed it with a "A" rating for adults only. This decision was praised by film critics Siskel and Ebert who had noted many times for the need of a rating between R and X that designated a film as for adults only, but did not give the impression of pornography that X came with. Two months later the MPAA replaced X with NC-17.
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A man is hired by a group of people he believes to be gangsters to escort a briefcase from America to Hong Kong. When he arrives, however, his contact is nowhere to be found.