MOVIE COMPANY: DIMENSION FILMS
CAST: Starring Michelle Yeoh, Cameo by Jackie Chan and more.
DIRECTED BY: Stanley Tong
PRODUCED BY:
RATING: Rated PG
INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE URL: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0106544
TYPE OF MOVIE: Action, Romance
[From Amazon.com] Former Miss Malaysia and current butt-kicking Hong Kong action star Michelle Yeoh leaped to international attention costarring alongside Jackie Chan in Supercop. The film was actually the third installment of Chan’s successful Police Story series, but that didn’t stop cagey producers from turning out Supercop 2 as a solo vehicle for the lean, lithe Yeoh. She travels from mainland China to Hong Kong to “advise” local cops on a Chinese drug lord and discovers Rong Guang Yu (from Iron Monkey and Rock and Roll Cop), her former lover and now the leader of a militia-style gang in partnership with her quarry. Yeoh is in fine form, kicking off the picture with a thrilling close-quarters battle in a high-rise hotel, but the complicated plot of high tech crime, double crosses, and conflicted loyalties strangles the action and slows the film despite such action highlights as an impressive three-man raid on a well-armed criminal den. (Jackie Chan’s jokey cameo as a cop in drag doesn’t really help matters.) The film finally regains its energy in an explosive free-for-all bank heist climax, in which the painful English dubbing becomes all but unnoticeable as bullets fly, bodies crunch, and balletic Michelle Yeoh moves like a dynamo. –Sean Axmaker
DVD EXTRAS:
• Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
• Color, Widescreen, Dolby, Surround Sound
• Widescreen letterbox format
KNOWN DVD SECRET(S): None that I know of
DVD REVIEW:
I told myself many times not to buy Dimension Film DVD’s. I watch too much HK movies and the last thing I need is to watch badly dubbed movies. But yet, I was curious to the dubbing of this film and although it is not as badly dubbed as the Jet Li movies on Dimension, I closed my mind and not focus on the dub. Just enjoy the movie.
I enjoy the movie and although it’s not the better one’s from Michelle Yeoh and doesn’t come near the quality of Supercop, it’s an enjoyable movie about love and betrayal.
But like all Dimension Film DVD’s, your treated with nothing but the movie. Unacceptable in today’s DVD standard in my opinion. No trailer, not one thing besides the movie. If that was the case, people could save money and buy the video. It’s not exactly high quality when it comes to audio/video transfer quality, so look for the Tai-Seng DVD version or subtitled version of this movie. Enjoy it how it was meant to be.
As for Dimension…”more is better”!
THE MOVIE:Â B-
THE DVD EXTRAS:Â F
THE DVD OVERALL:Â D+