Thunder Cops II
 

Director: Jeff Lau
Year: 1989
Rating: 7.0

If you came here for a comedy, turn around and leave. If you came here to be slapped across the face till you are black and blue this is the right place to be.  This film is a continuous assault against your senses. It is absolutely brutal and intense from beginning to end. I am in dire need of a Stephen Chow film after this. Wait a second, this was a Stephen Chow film. How did I manage to rent three Chow films and none of them were comedies?

 

Sandra Ng is the main character in this film and she gives a stunning in your face performance. Chow in a heartfelt dramatic role is excellent as well. The film begins with Sandra as a traffic officer who gets involved with a police raid that is being led by her father, Eddie Ko. She makes a botch of it and causes the death of her father and the killer gets away. To gain revenge she goes through police training and turns herself into a tough Dirty Harry type cop. In tracking down the killer she uses a junkie informant - Ann Bridgewater in a harrowing performance – to keep tabs of Shing Fui-On who is doing a drug deal with the killer. 

Lots of horrible things happen and Ng has to use Shing Fui-On’s crippled brother, Stephen Chow to get to him. It turns out that the killer is also now trying to kill Shing Fui-On and is also after Chow. This film never lets up and is brutal to the end. There are three action scenes that are absolutely terrific. In the first one – Chow is about to be killed – and Ng does a Chow Yun Fat to rescue him. The scene is filmed from Chow’s perspective as if in a dream and it’s an incredible scene.   I think in the end that I appreciated this film - great acting jobs, intriguing cinematography and good action - but by the end credits you may be reaching for your prozak medication.