Advantages: Great action, great fights, great storyline, plenty of men to look at. Disadvantages: Predictable and cheesy at times.
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SYPNOSIS
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Coming back from Canada after education, young and rebellious police cadets Jack (Nicholas Tse), Match (Stephen Fung), and Alien (Sam Lee) are recruited by loser Inspector Chan (Eric Tsang) to go as undercover thugs. Inspector Chan was deliberately given a 'Special Mission' to avenge his best friend's death by tracking down Japanese notorious dealer, Akatora (Toru Nakamura). It was a Special Mission designed for Inspector ... ...real recruited officers who are also dealing with this very same case. So, the race to crack the case is very much like a desirable and heroic James Bond with his fully equipped army force VERSUS disastrous Johnny English with Three Blind Mice - who will win I wonder?
Aiding the 'loser' team was Y2K (Grace Yip), a streetwise hacker who's became courageous and invaluable to the gang. I can't help but to think what her day job was, but I guess that ...
Moogiekupo 25.01.2006
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Gen X Cops (DVD)
Advantages: Great action, great fun Disadvantages: None
...DVD along with the sequel Gen Y Cops.
I primarily bought this as Stephen Fung and Nicholas Tse were in it after seeing them together in the film 2002. I then saw this movie of them together and decided to buy Gen x Cops on DVD.
This is a fun movie to watch and there is really no need for subtitles half the movie is in English anyway. I know most of it is in Cantonese, a little Japanese, but the majority is English.
The cast line is excellent with ... ...characters within the story, stars such as , Toru Nakamura, Francis Ng, Sam Lee, Daniel Wu, Eric Tsang and Terrence Yin
If you love Hong Kong action movies with lots of fight sequences then you will love this movie as it has it all. Comedy, a little romance and the dumb witty Tsang at his best. Why does he always get cast as the stereotypical clown I wonder. But needless to say he plays it well.
Tse and Fung are like the hong kong version of Ant ...
pisces1973 10.10.2005
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful Review of Gen X Cops (DVD)
Produced by Jackie Chan (who also makes an uncredited cameo),Gen-X Copsis an attempt to ... more
kick-start a franchise that will play well in the international market--hence the odd mix of Cantonese and English dialogue throughout. Match, Alien and Jack are th...
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Produced by Jackie Chan (who also makes an uncredited cameo),Gen-X Copsis an attempt to ... more
kick-start a franchise that will play well in the international market--hence the odd mix of Cantonese and English dialogue throughout. Match, Alien and Jack are th...
Postage & Packaging: £1.21 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days...
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