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Young
Policemen in Love |
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Year: |
1995 |
Nicky Wu and Takeshi Kaneshiro |
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Director: |
Chiu
Yen-Ping |
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Producer: |
Wong
Jing |
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Cast: |
Takeshi
Kaneshiro, Nicky Wu,
Charlie Young Choi-Nei,
Yip Chuen-Chun, Wong
Yat-Fei
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The
Skinny: |
A
bad movie by most standards, but also amusing fluff for popstar
chasers. |
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Review
by Kozo: |
Wong Jing’s Workshop made this film and it shows. It’s a cheap,
silly flick about two young, handsome policemen named Garlic
and Gimmick (Nicky Wu and Takeshi Kaneshiro) who go undercover
in Wong Fei-Hong College to protect a mainland general’s daughter
played by Charlie Young.
Let’s put the cards on the table:
this isn’t a very good film. Director Chiu Yen-Ping borrows
liberally from Stephen Chow’s Fight Back to School
and one action sequence is blatantly (nearly shot-for-shot)
ripped off from Lethal Weapon III. Also, Nicky Wu is
the epitome of the popstar actor: all looks, but no real depth.
Still, Takeshi Kaneshiro is likable and Charlie Young steals
the flick when she finally appears fifty whole minutes into
the damn thing. She hangs around for thirty minutes and then
the film ends.
To sum up: it's pretty people
in mindless fluff that entertains, but doesn’t do much else.
The high point of the film is probably the Five Invincible
Stances from the “Secret Scroll of Dating Girls.” Music stolen
from A Fish Called Wanda. I find this movie sort of
amusing. Sue me. (Kozo 1996) |
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image
courtesy of Mei Ah Laserdisc Co., Ltd.
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