Another Chinese Cop
Director: Lam Yi-hung
Year: 1996
Rating: 5.0
For those Diana Pang
Dan fans out there – and there must be a few because she is one of the few
actress’s in HK these days who still have a fairly steady output of films
(low budget as they may be) – there are four minutes of celluloid contained
in this film that are a must see. The rest of the film is forgettable within
minutes – but these four minutes will keep you warm at night over the long
cold winter that is approaching! Now as a moral responsibility – as opposed
to a flagrant attempt at increasing hits at my site – so that you can judge
whether your children should see this – I am including a few moments of this
dance!
Mind you she never sheds her clothes or shows anything but some leg, buttocks
and cleavage – but she puts on a little hootchy kootchy dance that will raise
the temperature of your TV set. One of the more salacious if slightly corny
scenes I’ve come across in a HK film.
Now what was the rest of the film about? Was there a rest of the film? Barely.
Anthony Wong and Tsui Kam-Kong are cops on the mainland and Tsui is good
friends with Billy Chow whose girlfriend is Pang Dan. It takes a long while
before anything shakes out in this film – but finally Pang Dan tells Chow
that her mother is ill and she needs money or she will marry a rich man.
He says he will come up with the money – and this leads to the before mentioned
scene.
They decide to kidnap a rich businessman, but for whatever reason Pang Dan
finds it necessary to put on a show for him first. I guess if you are going
to kidnap someone, it is the least you can do. Well they end up killing the
fellow – and frame Yuen King-Tan for it. Tsui “Baldie” suspects it is his
old friend though and feels obligated to go after him. That would be about
it.
What you may ask has Anthony Wong been doing through all this. I am not at
all sure – he is in a number of scenes but basically sits around doing very
little. When asked why he takes a film role in the book “Cine East”, Wong
confesses “Money. Most are just for money”. This would certainly be one of
those. Wong is a wonderful actor – one of the very best most intense ones
in HK – when he is in a film that he thinks is worth the effort. But when
he is in an obviously junky film such as this – he sleepwalks through his
role. Now if Pang Dan had done her little number for Anthony – perhaps he
would have woken up!
