Beast Cops

Yeshou xingjing

Hong Kong

1998

110 Min

Color

1.85:1

Cantonese

Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
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CAST Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Michael Wong, Stephanie Che, Kathy Chow, Sam Lee, Patrick Tam, Roy Cheung, Arthur Wong, Sammuel Leung, Kong Kim, Gary Mak

MUSIC Teddy Robin Kwan, Tommy Wai

The film stars Anthony Wong as Tung, a slightly crooked, but mostly lazy, Detective working a stretch of streets run by a gang. The head of the gang is Roy Cheung, who flees the city after a hit that he arranged goes wrong. He leaves behind his cocky second-in-command, the young Pushy Pin (Patrick Tam), whose rise to power coincides with the arrival of strait-laced Detective Cheung (Michael Wong). Cheung is taking over Tung’s unit after having shot his former superior, a crooked cop, dead. While Cheung finds Tung and his partner Sam (Sam Lee) to be ineffective, his traditional views of the job comes into question when he falls for the spunky and slightly “off” Madame of a bar/brothel. —beyondhollywood.com

Director

Gordon Chan

Gordon Chan Kar-Seung (simplified Chinese: 陈嘉上; traditional Chinese: 陳嘉上; pinyin: Chén Jiāshàng), born in 1960, is a Hong Kong film director, writer and producer. His most notable works include Beast Cops, Fist of Legend, Painted Skin, 2000 AD and Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen. In 2011 he announced and launched the productions for Mural, Four Detectives/Four Marshals, and Painted Skin 2. Though for Painted Skin 2 he dropped out as the director and the director’s seat was given to Wuershan. His 1996 film First Option was entered into the 20th Moscow International Film Festival. —Wikipedia

Dante Lam

Renowned action film director Lam started his filmmaking career in the 1980s in production, acting and action choreography. In 1997, he made his directing debut in Option Zero. A year later, he won the Best Director at the Hong Kong Film Awards for Beast Cops (co-directed with Gordon Chan). His subsequent works, like Jiang Hu: The Triad Zone, Hit Team, Tiramisu, Twins Effect, Naked Ambition, Heat Team and Love on the Rocks, have been consistently embraced by critics. Famous for his thorough research, his movies often infused with a strong sense of reality. —asianmediawiki