03-17-2006, 12:52 AM
When Quentin Tarantino puts his name on a Chinese import, it's usually worth checking out. When Jackie Chan does, that's a totally different scenario. The sequel to Gen X Cops (which I didn't see) almost had me thinking it was worthy of a DOOM showing until about half way through and the drugs wore off. It's a weird satire of the stylish HK young cop dramas, complete with a goofy pair of clown cops, HK cops vs. FBI, a robocop terminator robot called 'the robot RX1', bad cgi, a couple ok kung fu scenes, a cool cop, a hottie cop, lots of nerd cops, a jamaican dope dealer, a hallucination that involves a drunk in a giant lobster costume, balletic gunplay, lots of explosions and shattering of glass, computer nerds who save the day, an awesome kung fu hacker skatepunk villain, a very predictable ending, lots of caught-in-machine-gunfire dances, and no nudity. There was probably more, but I still wouldn't recommend this. Once I figured out the lobster, the rest of the film just came apart at the seams.
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