With the coming of June, it's time for summer movies to show in front of big screens. Out of various summer moives, 'Gen-X Cops' seems to be the first release in front of us. It seems that Media Asia is very confident with the quality of the movie by using new stars like Nicholas TSE Ting-fung, Stephen FUNG Tak-lun, Sam LEE Chan-sum plus Grace YIP Pui-man. Together with special effects made by the term with 'Independence Day' (1996), you can see how ambitious they are.

'Gen-X Cops' started with Wai (LAM Ka-tung) who failed to import military for a Japaese terrorist. He was killed by his brother Daniel (Daniel WU) while Daniel co-operated with nortorious Japanese terrorist (Toru Nakamura) and taken the bombs away from the Police. Hong Kong Police Force seems to pay full alert towards the case. However, Eric TSANG, an inspector with mental disability, is not invited to get involved in the case. He tried to form his task force by finding Jack (Nicolas TSE Ting-fung), Alien (Sam LEE Chan-sum) and Match (Stephen FUNG Tak-lun), who just be withdrawal by the principal of the Police Training School. These three inexperienced kids works with another girl Y2K (Grace YIP Pui-man) who is supposed to be the expert of computer to break the case. During the investigation -- they found one of their horrible action -- destroying the new convention centre with the stolen powerful chemical weapon and they would like to stop them......

After you watched 'Gen-X Cops', I think you will agree that it's a quality production. However, I think the main input is from the director and some of the castings. The plot of 'Gen-X Cops' seems to be very typical. Or if you try to change the cast into Jackie CHAN as 'Gen-X Cops' while LO Wai-kwong as the baddies, it looks like a Jackie movie which you can watch every year.During the whole process, you can find lots of action scenes. However, n terms of description of these boys, I don't think the movie has got enough contents to talk about them. Maybe they will put more in the second series.

In spite of the typical plot, the good point of the plot is that it goes quite fast so that audience can keep the pace to enjoy the actions. This is one pooint that is important in action movies or audience won't enjoy it. 'Gen-X Cops' has done a good job here.

In terms of actions and explosions, I think Benny CHAN has done an excellent job in it. Some of the action designs are very cool like the gun fighting between Daniel and Francis NG Chun-yu and the final actions in convention centre are exciting. I appreciate they canmake good use of the enviornment around for actions.

Besides actions, I think this time there are also laughters through the movie. Sam LEE seems to be the one who initiates these laughters which makes the whole movie more fruitful.

In terms of the performers, this time it's a trial to cast new stars for the main role. Out of the four, Sam LEE is the most outstanding actor out of them, or even out of the whole movie. Though he stills like a casual teenagers, this time he does not need to whore while he can initiate lots of laughters and let audience to be impressed.

For Stephen FUNG Tak-lun, I regret to say it seems that the movie triesto make use of him asa an object to induce girls only. In fact, you can't see he can have more chances to act. I understand that it's akind of calculations for the market. Hope they can let Stephen act more in the second series.

Nicholas TSE, who is awarded the best new performer in the current Hong Kong Film awards, has done his assignment wee. Though his performance is not as outstanding as what Sam LEE has done, he meets the requirement of the movie as Jack who has very strong organization attribute.

About Grace YIP, it seems that her acting is a bit innatural in the movie. I think the script writer may need to bear part of the responsibilies in designing the character. Grace YIP acts as Y2K should show her strength in Computer/Network. However, what we can see in front of the screens is how she use Internet for web surfing. It is also a bit strange that she also involves in the actions. This results for the blur positioning of Grace in the movie which makes audience hard to follow.

Side casting LAM Ka-tung and Francis NG has done an excellent in the movie. Both were acted as the traditional triads. I think LAM acts even better than Francis NG. For Eric TSANG, I found it is good for them to try to design his character as a bit abnormal. However, his character design is also unrealistic. In addition, the development of Eric TSANG is also a bit weird. It seems that his development is too typical. Maybe it would be better to have another ending for him.

One point that you may note is that there are lots of dialogues in English. Maybe they try to make it more international. However, they have done it too far and some audience may query about LAM Ka-tung and Francis NG speaking English.

One thing that you may ask is how is the explosions for the Covention Centre. I think the effects is okay but it seems that audience may prefer the explosion in a larger scale.

In short, 'Gen-X Cops' is a quality production. In spite of the typical scripts, the actions are excellent. The performance of Sam LEE is also cool. Though the performance of other actors are a bit inexperienced, it doesn't affect much to the overall performance of the movie. At least it's still worth to see Benny CHAN's direction.