| Not too special but often intense, stylish and brutal, from one of Billy Chung's most noticeable years of directing (that also contained The Assassin and Love To Kill) comes Lady Super Cop. Inspiring little with that title, Carina Lau is the dedicated (way too some might say) madam whose cousin (also a cop, played by Teresa Mo) has a more laid back attitude. But a manically laughing madman of a villain (Chin Ho) disrupts any fun and puts lives on the line. Chung doesn't touch as such upon character-drama but the ultra-stylized environments (bathed in blue for instance) are fetching and the flick really "only" wants to score when employing brutality and action. Chung, feeling very at home with the atmosphere that content can contain, doesn't bathe the screen red in blood however and that's the effective choice for Lady Super Cop. Waise Lee, Michael Chan and Eric Tsang also appear. |
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