Project S Reviews

1993

Rated:
50
from 551 members

Spurred by the runaway success of SUPERCOP, Michelle Yeoh (also known as Michelle Khan) reprises her role of Inspector Yang, a no-nonsense cop from mainland China whose dazzling beauty conceals her sharp mind and martial arts mastery. Sent to Hong Kong to bust up a crime syndicate, Yang is flung into a tailspin when she .. Read more

Starring	Jackie Chan, Michelle Yeoh, Michael Wong, Emil Chau
Director	Stanley Tong
Genres	Action/Adventure, World Cinema

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This below-par Hong Kong thriller (a sequel of sorts to Police Story III: Supercop) is distinguished only by the graceful high kicking of Michelle Yeoh (Tomorrow Never Dies). She plays a police inspector on the trail of bank robbers, who discovers that her ex-boyfriend is involved, leading to a bunch of flatly directed, by-the-numbers martial arts encounters. The siege opening and climactic heist push some of the right buttons, but there's a disappointing lack of style or substance on display. Bizarrely, Hong Kong superstar Jackie Chan has a one-scene cameo, as a cop foiling a jewellery store robbery — in drag.
- Radio Times
- Posted 29 Jan 2006
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4 out of 5 people found this review helpful

Supercop

Started watching this film then remembered this is also known as 'Super cop'.

So here is my previous review for this film:

Although I enjoyed this film and thought Michelle Yeoh was fantastic, there was an element to the film that had a Police story feel to it. I.e. Uncle Bill (Can't remember his real name) and an appearance from Jackie Chan.

This is not a bad thing as it enables you to get in to the characters a bit more.

The fight scenes were well put together and the film moved at a good pace.
- - Ultracritic from Warwickshire
  - Posted 24 Jun 2006 13:21
2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

Better than average

Unlike the majority of Asian martial flicks, this film had a strong storyline. All to often Hong Kong cinema insists on building modern martial arts films around a bafflingly complex storyline that simply doesn't tie the fight sequences together well enough. Whilst I sympathise with wanting to move the medium on from 'you killed my master, now I kill you', the cost to narrative drive is telling. This, the tale of a female cop pursuing her criminal boyfriend, is a worthy addition to the superb police story series.

Oh, don't think this is a Jackie Chan flick, bar the one scene that features him, the movie plays for action not laughs.
- - Philip Thomas from Castleford, UK
  - Posted 29 Jan 2006 09:34
2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

Same Film As Supercop

This is the Same Film As Supercop
- - A customer from uk
  - Posted 22 Jul 2006 09:22
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

Better than average

Unlike the majority of Asian martial flicks, this film had a strong storyline. All to often Hong Kong cinema insists on building modern martial arts films around a bafflingly complex storyline that simply doesn't tie the fight sequences together well enough. Whilst I sympathise with wanting to move the medium on from 'you killed my master, now I kill you', the cost to narrative drive is telling. This, the tale of a female cop pursuing her criminal boyfriend, is a worthy addition to the superb police story series.

Oh, don't think this is a Jackie Chan flick, bar the one scene that features him, the movie plays for action not laughs.
- - Philip Thomas from Castleford, UK
  - Posted 29 Jan 2006 09:34
average

dumb cop movie but watchable for fight sequence

pity the disc i had stopped before end of film so never saw climax
- - A customer from london
  - Posted 23 Jan 2007 17:20

4 out of 5 people found this review helpful

Supercop

Started watching this film then remembered this is also known as 'Super cop'.

So here is my previous review for this film:

Although I enjoyed this film and thought Michelle Yeoh was fantastic, there was an element to the film that had a Police story feel to it. I.e. Uncle Bill (Can't remember his real name) and an appearance from Jackie Chan.

This is not a bad thing as it enables you to get in to the characters a bit more.

The fight scenes were well put together and the film moved at a good pace.
- - Ultracritic from Warwickshire
  - Posted 24 Jun 2006 13:21
2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

Better than average

Unlike the majority of Asian martial flicks, this film had a strong storyline. All to often Hong Kong cinema insists on building modern martial arts films around a bafflingly complex storyline that simply doesn't tie the fight sequences together well enough. Whilst I sympathise with wanting to move the medium on from 'you killed my master, now I kill you', the cost to narrative drive is telling. This, the tale of a female cop pursuing her criminal boyfriend, is a worthy addition to the superb police story series.

Oh, don't think this is a Jackie Chan flick, bar the one scene that features him, the movie plays for action not laughs.
- - Philip Thomas from Castleford, UK
  - Posted 29 Jan 2006 09:34
2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

Same Film As Supercop

This is the Same Film As Supercop
- - A customer from uk
  - Posted 22 Jul 2006 09:22
1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

Very Good!

Really good Hong Kong Film with the Initial start set in China. Good fight scenes, good story line, but felt the Magazine scene a bit stupid & unfitting. The story was about a gang of X Vietnemese Army men who got together after the vietnam war who were doing the dirty work for a foriegn gang to break the bank vaults & get rich quick! The twist is that the police woman sent from China to capture the culprits finds out that the leader of the gang is her boyfriend who left China to get rich in Hong Kong....Hence bank robbing, firstly unknown to her! The film has a really easy to follow story line & is not a budget film and the film got really tense & exciting near to the end. Well worth watching!
- - A customer from yorkshire UK
  - Posted 24 May 2005 23:44
Good Action Film

This film does not tax your mind to much, but if all you want is film with plenty of action and to entertain you this is a movie that will do just that.

I realy enjoyed this movie and it certainly kept me entertained.

This film is well worth giving a go.
- - A customer from Guisborough
  - Posted 24 Aug 2004 19:45
average

dumb cop movie but watchable for fight sequence

pity the disc i had stopped before end of film so never saw climax
- - A customer from london
  - Posted 23 Jan 2007 17:20

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This below-par Hong Kong thriller (a sequel of sorts to Police Story III: Supercop) is distinguished only by the graceful high kicking of Michelle Yeoh (Tomorrow Never Dies). She plays a police inspector on the trail of bank robbers, who discovers that her ex-boyfriend is involved, leading to a bunch of flatly directed, by-the-numbers martial arts encounters. The siege opening and climactic heist push some of the right buttons, but there's a disappointing lack of style or substance on display. Bizarrely, Hong Kong superstar Jackie Chan has a one-scene cameo, as a cop foiling a jewellery store robbery — in drag.
- Radio Times
- Posted 29 Jan 2006

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