Gen-Y Cops (2000)
Reviewed by: trenty on 2001-02-06
Summary: A fun teen flick.
"Gen-Y cops" can said to be a teen flick but the result was fun. Although the movies was fun enough to watch from beginning till end but there are still some holes in between which makes the movie not unique.

The summary of this movie was located at the "Basic credits" of this page so I am not going to repeat here. Let's look at the goods and bads from it rather. First off, a big problem for a film that was produced(?) and shot in Hong Kong, LANGUAGE spoken in the movie is the problem. The plot was set to be in Hong Kong and I supposed that most of the Hong Kong movies were to be said in Cantonese. However, from the start of the movie, I knew that it's going to be weird to seat through with those ignoring english dialogues. With that flaw being put a side, the next bad thing is about the characters.

I personally didn't watch part one of this movie "Gen-X cops", neither I know whether both movies were related or not. However, when I was first being introduced to the characters in the movie, I found the character, Edison, wasn't introduced enough for me to continue though he did took the main role of the movie. Another ignoring outcome here is about the fact that actresses were actually existed in this movie. For example, Maggie Q and Christy Chung were the main actresses in this movie but I did't find it's important enough for them to exist throughout this movie.

One thing that was well filmed and produced was the hi-tech they used in the movie, although it's not new to these kind of hi-tech for the auidence as we may have watched them used even more hi-tech in the english movie "Mission Impossible". The robot and computer graphics they input throughout the movie was well done, especially the robot reminded me of watching "Robo-Cop" when I was young.

As for the performances, in general, all actors and actresses were well done in this movie although I found some actors weren't important enough for this movie as I stated above earlier. Other than that, guest starring with Anthony Wong and Eric Kot were also suitable input during the movie.

In conclusion, this kind of movie cannot be make like those serious action flicks we used to watch, it must have to be some kind of "Teen + Action = Fun" flicks to make the equation works. Although some characters flaw were involved and the dialogue thing but with all these young actors put together (that include Maggie Q), it gave the guidence a fun action ride.