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New Century of Cinema
DOWSE Guide to the
Movies
by Tony Lee editor of
Pigasus
Press
Beast Cops
115 minutes (18) Hong Kong
Director: Gordon Chan & Dante Lam
review by Jeff Young
It cleaned up at the Hong Kong film awards in 1999, and this
astonishingly violent drama of gangsters against gangbusters features uniformly
excellent performances (from a cast unknown beyond the HK scene), and some of the
bloodiest fight scenes ever staged outside of your basic serial killer horror
shocker. Though much of the street action has the feel of fly-on-the-wall
documentary, the authentic seeming script about a gambling cop's confrontations with
both his new partner and warring factions of HK organised crime, does field measures
of black humour and fierce emotion. The revenge attack at the film's climax amounts
to mini-horror flick all by itself. Could anything but a beast cop survive all that
punishment? At times, this makes nearly all similarly themed US thrillers look tame
in comparison. The video includes the original cinema trailer.
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