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I lost interest in this film from the get go! The movie looked cheap and extremely dated and I wasn't impressed with the action. Its about a robot which has been made to be the ultimate fighting machine but when it gets stolen from an exhibition by a computer hacker, a group of young cops, who were hired to protect the machine, fight to save the world. One of there fellow cops are drugged and used against the cops so the head of the FBI agents, Ian Curtis (Paul Rudd), attempts to get back the robot and kill the agent who has turned to the darkside. The young undercover cops manage to find out that there fellow agent has been drugged so they try to prove his innocence by getting back the robot, there own way, whilst fighting against the hackers, who have different plans for the robot. Personally, I didn't find the comedic scenes that funny and the gun tooting cops weren't that interesting. The robot looked ridiculous, especially towards the end but on the plus side, it's quite short so I didn't have to put up with the movie that long. I wasn't a big fan of the first movie because it seemed a bit messy and this film isn't much better. The trendy young cops just didn't seem to take the whole situation that seriously, even though there is a lethal robot on the lose, so I have to give this movie the thumbs down. Disappointing!
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Starring a young Paul Rudd, who looked uncomfortable throughout the movie, this, supposed to be, action movie wasn't that great and the scenes with Paul Rudd made me laugh because of were he is today. This film was directed by Benny Chan, who brought you the first movie in this franchise along with Who Am I?, New Police Story, Divergence, Robin-B-Hood and the great Shaolin. This movie would have been much better if it didn't have so much comedic content, which wasn't written that well and it feels like I'm beginning to sound like a broken record because I have said the same thing about a lot of the movies that I have seen recently. Anyway, this film was produced by Jackie Chan, who also produced the first movie and you can see that they used his style of action during the fighting scenes. Its just a shame that the movie wasn't that great!
I recommend this movie to people who are into their action/sci-fi movies starring Paul Rudd, Mark Hicks, Edison Chen and Stephen Fund. 2/10
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars
01/18/23
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A fun sci-fi action/comedy B-movie. Big fans of Q and Rudd might want to take a look, but the dialog, music, comedy and some effects are pretty bad. The stunts and explosions give the film some redeeming qualities in addition to the Short Circuit-esque plot.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
01/21/23
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First and foremost, this movie was surprisingly released in 2000, and not in 1991 as it clearly looks. I'm still trying accept this. Let's just say the cinematography isn't a reason to see it.
Gen-X Cops 2: Metal Mayhem (also known as Gen-Y Cops) is a thoroughly amateurish, incredibly cheesy Hong Kong attempt at a Hollywood-style blockbuster. I haven't seen the first Gen-X Cops movie, so I can't compare the quality between the two. The sequel, however, falls firmly into the "so bad it's (almost) good" category. The dubbing is atrocious, the fight and action scenes (while occasionally entertaining) are poorly choreographed, some of the acting is beyond awful, and the story is a mess of stolen robots, police officers trying to clear their names, maniacal hackers, and slapstick humor. Probably my least favorite thing about it was that it was simply too long and too often it was boring.
I only watched the movie because of Maggie Q. (not nearly enough of her) and Paul Rudd (in his most ill-fitting role ever, though he still manages to be unintentionally funny). If you have similarly extraneous reasons or you just want to see a cheesy, weird movie, give Gen-X Cops 2 a shot. Otherwise, stay far, far away.
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars
01/24/23
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I know that i watched this film because presented by Jackie Chan. Usually these kind of films are not my taste but this was okay. Special effects were a bit lousy for that time and RS1 looked like a toy/transformers.
Maggie Q was the best thing in whole movie. Unfortunately some main actors performance was too goofy.
The story sounded interesting but they should have been focused more and even some the fighting scenes did not worked.
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Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
02/08/23
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- Best Actress: Angelica Lee Sin Jie
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-Best Actress: Angelica Lee Sin Jie
-Best Visual Effects: Centro Digital Pictures
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-Reccommended Film
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-Best Actress: Angelica Lee Sin Jie
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[left]A stylishly produced flick, The Pang Bros's The Eye doesn't break any new ground, but effects a chillingly good yarn about seeing dead people.
First up, newcomer Angelica Lee Sin Jie, who won several accolades for her performance here, truly deserves those Best Actress trophies for her nuanced performance here. Her role as a blind woman who gets the gift of sight after a cornea transplant, only to discover that her newfound sight gives her the ability to see ghosts, is something that could easily be wrought with overacting and excessive hysterics, something that Ms Lee does not fall prey to.
The first half of the film is slickly produced, with the requisite chills and spills, but nothing you've not seen before. It moves along competantly, and technically proves impressive, but lacks the panache to match truly brilliant horror films like A Tale of Two Sisters.
A twist in the second half of the film, something that i had not anticipated, shifts the film into a different gear as the movie shifts in locale to Thailand. I enjoyed this more than the first half since it adds emotional resonance to the film, and was well done. However, in the final act, a contrived plot point, meant to resolve how Angelica is to come to terms with her ghost seeing ability comes across as extremely contrived and undermines the effectiveness of the film.
Oh, and since Singapore has a [small] hand to play in the film, it has very bit roles by our very own Edmund Chen and Pierre Png, roles so insignificant, they might as well not be there. Thankfully for the small singaporean presence, the film doesn't suck as much as it could have.
Ultimately, The Eye is a better and more well crafted film than The Eye 2, especially in the plot coherence dept, but vis a vis landmark horror films like The Ring(japanese version), the Sixth Sense or A Tale of Two Sisters it inevitably comes up short.
[center][size=4]Gen-Y Cops (2000)
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[/size] [left]I have no idea why US version of this film feels the need to add "Jackie Chan Presents" to its original title of Gen Y Cops. Seriously, not even Jackie Chan's name can save this uninspired piece of fluff.
Surprising, despite its numerous and blatant flaws, i must say i sorta enjoyed this film. It is quite possibly the best comedy coming out from HK in 2000, a cereberal piece of wacky slapstick humor. Don't let the youthful good-looking cast and the actiony poster fool you, this is a great piece of comedy.
But wait, this isn't supposed to be a comedy you say? You mean its supposed to be an action film? My bad, i suppose, but Gen-Y cops is really funny. It has a laughably generic, predictable plot. It has hilarious overacting and bad acting by its cast. The script is so ludicrous as to border on satorial brilliance. And CGI is painfully amateurish as to generate laughs when you see it. Yes, Gen-Y cops is the proverbial film that's so bad, its actually good. A campy B-film from HK that is otherwise unremarkable if not for the fact that it distracts as a funnily bad film.
Now, there's good overacting and there's just plain bad acting. Stephen Fung and Sam Lee ham it up for the screen as two jaded cops thinking of quitting the force. Yes, they overact, but they are so campy, so delirously infectious in their performance that you just have to enjoy it. On the other hand, there's bad acting. Newcomer Richard Sun has possibly one of the lousiest new performances ever, overacting and doing it so badly that it may actually be interesting. Other than having a grating faux american accent, with lousy english and a one diemensional villian character, Sun's persona is so ludicrously done that makes it laughable. Maggie Q, despite her good looks is awfully wooden and artificial in this film. Her scant few lines of dialogue make me wonder why she was cast in the first place if not to up the babe wattage.
Chock full of bad english, lame lines, so-so action, Gen Y cops is the epitome of unnecessary sequel, but as you can see by my rating, it is actually saved by its craptacularity. Its not difficult to make a godawful bad film. What's difficult is to make a film so bad that its actually good (or at least decent) simply because of how bad it is. Gen-Y Cops manages that rare balance to make a film so bad, good.
Let me first repeat that Gen Y Cops IS A BAD FILM. But, if you can appreciate its badness, you might actually find it watchable.
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Rated 2.5/5 Stars •
Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
02/21/23
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Benny Chan directs the sequel to Gen X Cops with a brand new cast. It's got plenty of action but doesn't quite hit the heights of the first.
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
01/20/23
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