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Gen-X Cops

2000, Movie, 113 mins

Gen-X Cops: Review

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In Hong Kong, criminal neophyte Danny (Daniel Wu) bumps off his brother and places his weapons smuggling operation at the beck and call of international arch-villain Akatura (Toru Nakamura). In the meantime, veteran police officer Chan (Eric Tsang) gets grudging permission to form a task force against Akatura. Unfortunately, he must settle for the police academy's washouts, namely Jack (Nicolas Tse), Match (Stephen Fung) and Alien (Sam Lee). Although these so-called Generation X cops worm their way into Danny's confidence, the powers-that-be continue to view them with disrespect. After several shootouts, Jack arranges for his partners to trail Danny and him to a pow-wow with Akatura. It turns out that Akatura has a personal motive behind his arms purchases: He intends to assassinate a politician who betrayed his father, and just to make sure, he's going to blow up an entire skyscraper! This martial arts import is well staged but atrociously dubbed. Legs chop through the air like human ginsu blades and buildings blow up as if demolition were the latest spectator sport, but every time an actor speaks, credibility plummets. Quite simply, the actors' facial expressions don't mesh whatsoever with the Americanisms they're constantly spouting, only it's not intentional, as with Woody Allen's WHAT'S UP, TIGER LILY? Promoted as a Jackie Chan production, this film features foot- and hand-work worthy of the master but labors too hard to reproduce Jackie's trademark self-deprecating humor. It's a movie starring stand-ins, not the one-of-a-kind Chan himself. leave a comment --Robert Pardi
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