Rating:

3

Year of release: 1990

Genre: action/comedy

Director: Chan Jeung Wa

Action directors: Hsiao Ho, Siu Paang, Baan Yun Sang

Producers: Chung Gam Gwai, Ng Gan Yan

Writers: Chan Wa, Chan Wai Chi

Stars: Sandra Ng, Alvina Kong, Billy Lau, Angile Leung, Chung Ji Hung, Alex To, Charlie Cho, Eddy Ko Hung

Rated IIA for language and violence

DVD Information

Company: Star Treasure

Format: full frame

Languages: Cantonese, Mandarin

Subtitles: Chinese/English (burned-in)

Extras: none

Notes: Horrible picture quality with badly-translated subtitles that are hard to read.

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Vampire Settle on Police Camp

This poor entry in the "vampire/ghost busting" genre has Eddy Ko Hung playing a police instructor whose camp is being besieged by a group of ghosts. After consulting a priest, Eddy brings in a group of cadets who were all born in the year of the dragon, and trains them in the art of fighting ghosts. And that's about it. Running at a scant seventy-two minutes, Vampire Settle on Police Camp struggles to even fill in that short running time, with a good deal of frames wasted on dumb musical montages and several gags that are stretched far beyond their already thin premises.

Really, nothing at all here is done compentently, much less actually done well. The characters are all cookie-cutter cliches (the tough kid, the nerdy guy, the suave one, etc.) and the script feels like it was wirtten by a couple of drunken monkeys; plot developments come and go on a whim, and even though the basic story is very simple, it still manages to make no sense. There are a couple of decent fights, but even if the ghost of Bruce Lee made an appearance here, it still couldn't save Vampire Settle on Police Camp from being a total dud.