Miao tan shuang long

I am a huge fan of late 80s/early 90s HK martial arts movies; some of the greatest fight flicks of all time came from this period. Unfortunately, City Cops is not one of them.

With its overly simplistic plot (an FBI agent seeks a runaway informant, who is also being hunted by nasty gangsters) and some dreadful attempts at humour (check out the truly unfunny 'sex-pest' and 'AIDS' scenes), the movie drags terribly until the final fight scene, which is admittedly great, but a very long time in coming.

Cynthia Rothrock (once again playing a character named Cindy) isn't given enough opportunity to show off her amazing martial arts skills, with too much of the film's running time spent on the lame comedy rather than delivering impressive fight scenes. Likewise, the physically impressive Michiko Nishiwaki is also underused, only getting to shine briefly towards the end, when she gets to go one-on-one with Ms. Rothrock.

The finale also features some frenetic gun-play, during which many white-overall-ed henchmen get sprayed with bullets (blood squibs look so much more impressive against white, don't you think?).

Still preferable to most of Cynthia Rothrock's US output, but nowhere near as good as the classic Police Assassins, City Cops is average at best.

FBI agent Cynthia Rothrock travels to the Far East to investigate the disappearance of a key witness withholding incriminating evidence against the Japanese mafia and its hoard of gweilo minions. A couple of crass CID officers (played by Kirk Miu and Shing Fui-on) get involved and end up dominating the film, tagging the informant's sister to gather more evidence.

This Hong Kong actioner leans more towards comedy, some of it can be coarse and in bad taste, like it is in some Hong Kong productions, however I found the comic CID duo and their interactions quite amusing. Cynthia Rothrock has less screen time, and mainly here when there's time for some high-kicking action. The fight choreography here is quite good here- nice samurai sword play against Cynthia's double swords. A showdown with a Japanese babe at the finale. Not on the par with Yes,madam or Righting Wrongs, but still an entertaining and fun slice of comedy and kung fu.

Three detectives, two from Hong Kong (Kiu-Wai Miu, Fui-On Shing), and one from FBI (Cynthia Rothrock) goes after a diamond smuggler (Ken Tong) in Hong Kong. They capture the Japanese ring leader who's buying the diamonds, but his sister (Michiko NIshiwaki) comes in to take revenge on the smuggler who sold her brother to the police.

The movie is well made. Each of the scenes are shot with beautiful background, and lighting. Hong Kong movie really had their act together by the late '80s. They had good actors, and quality production.

The movie has good humor, and action. It's funny and exciting at the same time.

The highlight are the fight scenes where Rothrock kicks her way through the bad guys. This is one of the best movie she's starred in. If you're a fan of Cynthia Rothrock, or Michiko Nishiwaki, you wouldn't want to miss this movie.

I didn't have high expectations about this movie but i was really surprised. This film impressed me with its fight scenes, some good jokes(most of them were lame)and with the cast involved: Cynthia Rothrock, Michiko Nishiwaki & Mark Houghton. The final fight between Cynthia and Michiko didn't disappoint but i wanted to be a lil' bit longer. Ms.Rothrock had the same role that she had in films like: Yes Madam&Righting Wrongs. She plays convincingly her role and not like she was playing in one of her US movies. I like a lot her Chinese movies, are so much better than her US movies. Even Prince of the Sun (the last movie she had done in China) was better than China O'Brien for example. All in all this movie remains until this day a classic, believe or not, and Cynthia Rothrock's fans should not miss this one.

This is one of those reviews where I find myself asking "Isn't there anything good you can say about this movie?" Answer = no. The plot is random scene or setting where the actors have a random misunderstanding. There are many attempts at humor and they not only fail but become insufferable. It is hard to believe that AIDS was once comedy material. "You got AIDS!" and everyone laughs.

The end final fight was a warehouse set and Cynthia and Michiko were primed to have at it. It was too little and too late.

I watched it once to write this review and I will never watch it again.