Tiger On Beat 2: Quick Takes

Chow Yun-Fat proved to be the actual box-office draw for Tiger On The Beat as evident by the poor reception of the unrelated sequel. Teaming up Conan Lee with Danny Lee this time necessarily isn't a bad choice but director Lau Kar Leung can't really inject the same comedic interplay that he could when Chow Yun-Fat was on board. The fact that Conan also was seriously hurt during a stunt (very much visible in the movie) postponed production and limited his participation in terms of action. That aspect takes its time to manifest itself but the latter stages of Tiger On The Beat 2 offers up some decent gunplay and stunts, showing that Lau Kar Leung certainly was more comfortable as an action director in a modern era rather than a director. Full credit goes to Ellen Chan who performs a good amount of her own stunts, including getting hurled through a window by Roy Cheung. One of the fights at the bus terminal PROBABLY was expanded upon by Corey Yuen in The Transporter, the only good set piece of that film.

Also with Gordon Lau, Norman Tsui, Maria Cordero, Mark Houghton, John Cheung, James Wong, Robert Mak, Phillip Ko and Melvin Wong