Lethal Contact
Director: Kent Cheng;
Billy Lau
Year: 1992
Rating: 5.0
For the most part, this is
a very ho-hum ninety minute mix of comedy, drama and action. Some of the
action bits are not bad at all, but the comedy and drama fall as flat as
a policeman’s feet.
Kent Cheng and his partner,
Billy Lau, are two fairly inept cops, but they are lucky enough to have a
commander, Sibelle Hu, who has been their friend since childhood. So they
get away with a lot of nonsense and not working too hard.
She assigns them to escort Wilson Lam, a cop from Borneo, around HK while
he is in town. It turns out that he is looking for a witness to a big crime
syndicate back in Borneo. Borneo? Do they even have crime in Borneo. Anyway
not too surprisingly the bad guys are also looking for the witness and soon
enough there is a clash. A pretty good fight ensues - and though Kent and
Billy are a little less than believable - Wilson going against some gwielo
is not bad at all. I am not sure of the name of this guy - but he has some
amazingly acrobatic moves (have since learned he was Jeff Falcon who was
terrific in a bunch of Hong Kong films). A few surprising twists do
take place that lead up to a brutal end fight in which even Sibelle gets
to blow away a few guys. But these fights aside, there is very little else
of interest going on.
Oh, ya this review is
in the Amy Yip section isn’t it? Well, on the cover of the video there
was a picture of the Yipster displaying more cleavage than the Grand Canyon,
but somehow that didn’t seem to make it into the version I had. Yes, fooled
again. Here she has two brief scenes of a couple of minutes apiece and no
cleavage in sight. It is kind of a cute scene though. Amy and her sister
are hostesses at a bar and bring a client back to the apartment of Kent and
Billy (yes they share an apartment) where they scam the guy into believing
that Kent and Billy are their husbands. Now they pretend not minding the
girls bringing some business back to the apartment, but they do like to watch!
The client quickly pays up and rushes out the door and the money is split
four ways. Billy
and Kent also do the directorial duties and I have to admit that if I had
been in their shoes I might have thrown in a few scenes with myself and Amy
getting amorous. Maybe they are married.
