Cops Te Pei and Albert are trying to track down an organisation
smuggling Angel Dust into Hong Kong, , and their only clue leads to master
Kuo's troupe of acrobats from mainland China. While investigating them,
Albert falls in love with markswoman Ms Hung, but Ms Hung has used the
trip to Hong Kong only to make her escape to the USA, since she has
nothing that holds her back in mainland China, and eventually she defects
her troupe to hook up with her brother, who has been living in Hong Kong
for quite some time. The only things she is taking with her are a bag full
of herbs and her master's priceless martial arts manual - but somehow,
during a police raid, the bag full of herbs gets swapped with a bag full
of Angel Dust and the formula for Angel Dust finds its way onto the
manual. What ensues is a series of chases, fights and kidnappings,
during which Albert is desperately trying to shield Ms Hung from baddie
Keng Piao - who has used the troupe of acrobats for smuggling purposes
unbeknoest to them - and the police alike, until in the finale, master Kuo
and his acrobats come to Ms Hung's rescue, Keng Piao and his men get their
just desserts, and Ms Hung gets to go to the USA after all as a thank you
from the police. To add a troupe of acrobats to a standard
drug-running plot sounds like a great and funny idea - but unfortunately, Freedom
Run Q is not as hilarious as it could have been by far, and the main
problem is probably that the film simply tries too hard to be amusing and
as a result simply fails. That's not to say that the film is a total
failure, some jokes are actually inspired and do work, too, but as a
whole, this could have been much greater than it actually is.
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