{"id":16206,"date":"2024-02-14T21:00:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T02:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16206"},"modified":"2024-02-11T18:41:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T23:41:57","slug":"detective-vs-sleuths-2022-wai-ka-fai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16206","title":{"rendered":"Detective vs. Sleuths (2022, Wai Ka-Fai)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pairs well with <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/16114\">Mad Fate<\/a><\/em> &#8211; another potentially insane lead character, this time Lau Ching-wan, playing another <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/2288\">Mad Detective<\/a>.  He&#8217;s now an ex-detective, living on the street but still solving crimes, pissed at the employed cop (Raymond Lam of <em>P Storm<\/em>) botching the cases, drawing interest from pregnant cop Charlene Choi (<em>The Goldfinger<\/em>).  Things get convoluted as a young group called The Sleuths &#8211; Lau&#8217;s daughter and the children of crime victims and the wrongly-accused &#8211; uses Lau&#8217;s research for a revenge campaign, killing off criminals.  Some traitor sleuth cops are pulling the strings, getting cops and sleuths killed.  After a covid-delayed open, this got nominated for every HK award, so hopefully we&#8217;ll get a sequel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pairs well with Mad Fate &#8211; another potentially insane lead character, this time Lau Ching-wan, playing another Mad Detective. He&#8217;s now an ex-detective, living on the street but still solving crimes, pissed at the employed cop (Raymond Lam of P Storm) botching the cases, drawing interest from pregnant cop Charlene Choi (The Goldfinger). Things get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,2727,32,871,3104],"class_list":["post-16206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-fake-detective","tag-hong-kong","tag-madness","tag-wai-ka-fai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16231,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16206\/revisions\/16231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}