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Supercop 2

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Awesome Michelle Yeoh HK Movie!
Review: Ok, anyone who says the movie stunk because Jackie Chan isn't in it more than 5 minutes is a fool! It says right on the box "Michelle Yeoh is Supercop 2" and in little tiny print it says "With a special apperance by Jackie Chan as Inspector Chan" (His character from Supercop). This movie starts off with a bang and just keeps on going, and going! Michelle Yeoh is so awesome in this flick! She plays Jessica Yang (also her character from Supercop), and the semi-villian in the movie is played by Yu Rong Guang, who is an amazing actor (just see Iron Monkey, by Yuen Wo Ping, and you'll see why!) Anyhow, this movie is totally awesome, and the scene with Jackie Chan is very short, but really funny. I'd have given the movie five stars, but it ends sort strange, and it took away from the overall greatness of the movie. (Not that it was a bad ending, it just went too quick.) Anyway, see this movie! It rules!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Forget it, unless willing to see Michelle Yeoh in anything.
Review: Pretty bad. Apparently the makers of Supercop 2 (actually Police Story 3) failed to remember the formula to a good action flick. The action is far too brief and sporadic, at best, and there are a minimum of hair raising stunts. Instead, the movie gets mired down into too much plot and the stunts become negligible next to the boredom the film induces. One does not watch a Hong Kong action flick for the dramatic acting (witch, by the way, Yeoh is remarkably stiff and in need of a cattle prod to wake her up). Its not a great story, anyway.

A far better Michelle Yeoh cop/gunplay and kung fu film is Royal Warriors, or just stick with Supercop (in HK- Police Story 2).

The dubbing is pretty awful. Yeoh dubs herself, and while her English is great (after all, she was educated in Britain), her natural voice is so deliberate, slow, and seemingly self conscious, that it is flat and annoying. The dubbing company should be strung up for the way they dub some of the characters, particularly Jackie Chan in his brief, weird cameo. They use downright stereotypical Asian accents. The Jackie dubber has him saying, "Freeze Po-Reez!"(Freeze, Police)and "I so myself bored enough, that I began noticing little details to entertain myself. One of witch was the fact that Michelle shows her European education by turning the pages of a Chinese magazine the wrong way (in China one reads right to left, but she flips the pages the English way, left to right).

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Featureless DVD
Review: There's many things wrong with this film, as people have said above, but in particular the DVD should be criticised for presenting the film in a terrible dubbed version only. Especially when the women in the film apart from Yeoh sound like California Barbies, and the men speak in this stereotyped Chinese accent. Gag!

Plus, a striking lack of features, although I'd be hard pressed to think of what I'd like to have. I haven't seen the original, but with most of Dimension's American releases, they've probably jettisoned the original soundtrack for some USANetwork Action Film schlock.

However, that said, there *is* a story here, which they should have focused on more, being the conflict between Yeoh's character and her lover-gone-bad. It would have made the ending tragic, instead of just a relief. Too much time is wasted on puerile "You're a woman, it's too dangerous for you" conversations between the rookie cops and Yeoh. Please.

Anyway, bottom line, disappointing and Dimension Films should keep its hands off the original films, or at least allow us the alternative version on the DVD.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Supercop 2 (1993)
Review: This is a Michelle Yoeh film and NOT a Jackie Chan film. Infact Jackie only appears in a hialarious 5 minutes of the whole film. Michelle is sent to Hong Kong to stop a gang, but what she doesn't know is that it is her own boyfriend who is the leader of the gang. As a result she's torn between love and honour. Which side do you think she'll end up going with?!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: da best of da best
Review: This is by far the best movie i have ever seen. And this movie has alot of action and potential.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: unique
Review: This movie here is very unique. And michelle yeoh has alot of potential.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: not too shabby
Review: this movie i would say is not too shabby. And i saw this movie on starz a two years ago.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: good movie
Review: This movie is marvelous. I would say that the director did a fantastic job on this movie and should keep up the good work.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: bad movie
Review: This movie is really hard to watch! Jackie Chan is not in the sequel of his movie! why? i don't know. But i know that this movie is not good.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: its a classic
Review: This movie was a classic. And i would always remember that this movie is cool.


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