Curry and Pepper (1990)
Reviewed by: dandan on 2007-07-03
Summary: mmm...
curry (jacky cheung) and pepper (stephen chow) are cops who work in tsim sha tsui and don't seem to take things too seriously. when a young newsreader lady, mimi (ann bridgewater), decides to film a day in the life of some local police, she chooses curry and pepper! while competing for mimi's affections, curry and pepper get a tip about an illegal weapons exchange that's going down, but things don't quite go to plan and the pair find themselves in trouble with their superiors and targets for a crazed killer, mad dog (blacky ko).

a pretty damn entertaining mix of goofy comedy and nicely executed action sequences raise this above your standard cop / buddy flick; stephen chow and jacky cheung (who i prefer in comedy roles) work well together and seem to be having a lot of fun. there isn't anything particularly new or clever here, but what is there is done well enough to negate this.

as well as chow and cheung, eric tsang entertains as their crooked friend and blacky ko is nicely psychotic as a scar-faced killer. ko, also directs and handles the film's action sequences which provide a nice mixture of martial arts, stunt work, car chases and an extended gun battle which provifes a fitting finale to the film.

good stuff...