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Lethal Cop

2003

Director: ?

Stars: Fan Siu-Wong, Shing Fui-On


You want to know how cheap this movie (a term which I use loosely with this shot-on-DV, straight-to-VCD piece of junk) is? Take a look at the pic below.

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Let's take a closer look at that beer.

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That's right, it's actually a Pabst Blue Ribbon, quite possibly the cheapest and worst beer on the face of the earth. It's a lovely metaphor for the film as a whole. This movie is so terrible that they didn't even bother finishing it. There are many shots where there is no sound because they didn't do any foley work, some where the traffic on the street drowns out the actors, and a whole crapload where the editing doesn't even match up. "Amateurish" is too kind of a word to describe this pile of poo, because I know student film-makers who could put together better stuff than this.

Oh, the plot? It's some drivel about Fan Siu-Wong (the star of "Story of Ricky", a very cheesy movie, but something worlds above this) as a cop who gets shell-shocked after shooting a bystander, so he goes and trains with Shaolin monks to learn kung fu. Of course, he's also battling corruption in the police force, and when the top dirty cop steals his wife and kid, Fan must decide between his fist or his gun. Engrossing stuff, I know.

The lame attempts at action aren't even laughable. I've seen better stuff on those backyard wrestling tapes. The brawls make the fighters look drunk, and the gunfights feature plastic paintball guns. Usually even bottom-of-the-barrel HK stuff will have some decent action, but Lethal Cop can't even deliver that.

From start to finish, this is just a terrible movie. I noticed that the director for this monstrosity isn't credited, and for good reason. This rubbish makes Godfrey Ho's movies look like Citizen Kane by comparision. Cheap piles of total steaming excrement like this are not the direction HK movies need to be going in if they want to try and re-capture some of the audience lost to "hipper" markets like Korea and Japan.

RATING: 0.5

..or alternatively, this movie is the equivalent of ingesting both PBR and White Castle and will most likely cause severe abdominal pain and cramping. Stay away.

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NO DAMN GOOD.


A review for the VCD of this movie can be found here

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