Task Force (1997)
Reviewed by: JohnR on 2005-07-11
Summary: Nothing special (except Charlie Young)
It seems people either really loved this or didn't like it much at all. Seeing it seven years after its release, I don't have context to put it in, so maybe at the time it seemed pretty special. However, it didn't bowl me over.

Since no one else has mentioned the plot, I will. It's a study in male/female relations told through three cops who work together on a Task Force. Most of it involves a young cop who's attracted to a prostitute who inserts her crazed mania into his straight forward nice-guy life, and the reactions that provokes in him. Another is the Eric Tsang cop who chases every skirt he sees and the effect of this on his relationship with his wife. The last is Karen Mok's character and her mostly unrequited love for her uncaring, unseen lover, and her inability to quit the relationship.

No great insights here. This is kind of light weight and comparisons to Fall Angels are unfair - it's not even close, but it kept my interest (though I don't think it would have if not for Charlie Young). There's really nothing much wrong with it, it just doesn't do much. But Charlie Young is gorgeous and we get to see a young Karen Mok (though not enough of her).