Is more interesting than the movie itself. Another movie that is sometimes called "Thunder Cops" is another Jeff Lau/Sandra Ng collaboration, Operation Pink Squad, which does not share the Chinese title of this film; Was OPS a hit with foreigners?... The new VCD release also has a new Chinese title (something like "two tough heroes," to cash in on Chow's appearance I suppose) and has an out-of-place fight scene (not with Ann Bridgewater as mentioned below) that is missing subtitles, indicating it was dumped at some point and spliced back in.

However, the movie is poor and barely worth so much thought. I think Jeff Lau is a really good, underappreciated second-string director, but I was surprised to find his name on this; it's actually really poorly made. Occasionally some of his attempts at style pay off, but mostly they're just strange, as in some of the looooong, drawn out slo-mo scenes. It also features some of the worst undercranking in HK movie history, as well as some abrupt editing. It is somewhat pleasingly grim, as others mention, but at times it's so excessively harsh that it becomes self-parody; you know, for instance, what's going to happen when some newlyweds show up.

Naturally, it's all pretty nonsensical. Those who think HK movies are sloppy these days should watch some older movies to remind themselves just how loose the "scripts" on some of these movies were.

To top it all off, the subtitler is over-eager to demonstrate his knowledge of English cursing and drops an excessive number of f-bombs where they aren't really necessary.

Do I really need to sum up and say this is a poor movie?