The Accidental Spy
2001
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GEN X COPS is all about life and vitality (despite the killing) and despite the familiarity of the proceedings, it gets by on sheer energy alone. The various action sequences are well handled and the film features one of the most impressive explosions I've witnessed in a while.
Reviews 57% Audience Score 2,500+ Ratings The Hong Kong police investigate the murder of their comrade in relation to the illegal weapons dealer. After finding out the terrorist's plan, they...
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- Benny Chan Chi-Shun
- R
- Nicholas Tse
- Gen-X Cops
- HK GeoNote
- Side Notes
During those commercial and creative Dark Ages of Hong Kong Cinema (I’d say roughly 1996-2003ish), one of the only things that was leaving a large, consistent impact was the Young and Dangerous series, to the point that there were several entries per year in the late 90s. Generation X audiences just couldn’t get enough of its basic concept of impud...
In the most conspicuous example of how Chan liked to use specific HK locations/events as major parts of his films and stories, the HK Convention & Exhibition Center — the most visible landmark straddling Victoria Harbour that fully opened not long before this movie started production — ends up being the site and target of the villain for the climax...
Even though JACKIE CHAN PRESENTS Gen-X Cops — as the words on both US and Chinese releases and his face on promotions prominently showed — he only appears for all of a minute in a comic relief cameo. But in the early 2000s, Jackie Chan was often willing to kindly lend a cameo to alternately trendy, peppy, kitschy, or dopey young star vehicles, whet...
Jun 18, 1999 · Recently viewed. Gen-X Cops: Directed by Benny Chan. With Nicholas Tse, Stephen Fung, Sam Lee, Grace Yip. A ridiculed HK cop hires 3 cadets, directly (thrown) out of police academy, to go undercover and get the criminals, who stole explosives and killed his partner.
- (2.4K)
- Action, Comedy, Crime
- Benny Chan
- 1999-06-18
Gen-X Cops Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com. Style can't make the three lead characters less annoying. Full Review |...
Jan 7, 2011 · “Gen-X Cops” is, without a doubt, the most American looking Hong Kong film I have ever seen. Not that that is a bad thing, it just is a fact. It is directed by Benny Chan of “Who Am I?” fame, and has style to spare. The story concerns a trio of rag-tag police rejects that are fired and re-hired to infiltrate a gang of bad guys.
Gen-X Cops (1999) directed by Benny Chan • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd. 1999. 特警新人類. Directed by Benny Chan. Four young officers of the Hong Kong Police are joined together to fight against organised crime using all possible means, even if this would lead them to break the law…
