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Review : Gen-Y Cops

Last Friday I found myself at my local Blockbuster video store and was inclined to rent a movie. I saw that they had a Hong Hong action film that I have not seen so I figured it would not hurt to rent Gen-Y Cops. Oh man was I wrong. I was in for a world of painfully cliches and bad dialog.

The actual title of this movie is Jackie Chan Presents : Gen-Y Cops but it looks like he has not had any major role in this flick and probably just slapped his name on it to collect a check.

Usually Hong Kong has a really high watermark for action movies and years of experience making the best action film on the planet. Most of which surpass your average Hollywood crap action flick. Then there are movies like this that just plain suck.

This is actually a sequel to a movie called Gen-X Cops and I have no idea if the original was good because I would rather pour soy sauce and lemon juice in my eyes than watch anything that had to do with this movie.

Plot is not really cohesive and it is about three teen age Hong Kong police detectives who drive a sports car and have trendy clothes and haircuts for Hong Kong. But this is where all similarities to Miami Vice ends. All three of them are cliches and annoying as hell. I kept wanting some thing very bad to happen to them. They are trying to recover a killer robot that the American FBI developed and was trying to show at a military expo in China. But it ends up the Robot was designed by a super cool hacker kid who knew the HK cops and was trying to steal it back so he could get revenge and then sell it to Middle easterner bad guys who are just white guys with plaid flannel wrapped around their heads.

Now about half of the cast spoke Cantonese and were dubbed in English, One group of them were bilingual and spoke in English that was so poorly acted that it was never meant for native English speakers to hear. Then there was the American FBI actors who could be the closest to acting if they actually had quality dialog to deliver. But they don't.

This film is full of just about every bad action cliché on both sides of the pacific and is not so bad it is good in an ironic way it is just plain bad. The heroes have tons of one liners to deliver and they can not ever be shot by the bad guys no matter how many bullets are flying at them They can take down any bad guy by doing a jump kick with both feet and they can escape any explosion as long as they jump at the last moment no matter how close they are from the fireball.

The killer robot was a mixture of a guy in a suit, a puppet and some CG work but it looked like it was a rip of the Terminator done by a Chinese college drama club combined with a Lethal Weapon movie.

It isn't even a good DVD but is a dubbed CROPPED movie with no special features.

I swear they probably spent more on the hair stylists than acting and writing. Don't even rent it because you are curious about how bad it can be. BBQ I am talking to you. This movie is about as fun as a case of SARS.

Here are some good Hong Kong action movies to rent instead of this one :
The Last Hurrah for Chivalry
The Killer
Bullet in the Head
Iron Monkey
Dragon Inn

Jake at May 27, 2003 Reviews

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