Cop
Director: Jacky Wu Tsung-hsien
Year: 1999
Rating: 0
What is going on
here? Either Jordan Chan owed someone a big favor or someone was holding
a gun to his head. I’d hate to think that this was the only work he can get.
This is almost certainly the worst HK film I have seen this year if not the
worst ever.
Cop. Jordan Chan. With a title like that
and Jordan Chan starring in it one has hope that it might be a small drama
involving the police. Think again. I have no idea why it is titled cop other
than to sucker in people like myself – as there is not a cop in sight – certainly
not when you need one. If there had been I would have had them arrest the
producers of this film.
Jordan actually plays a physical education teacher. Nothing against physical
education teachers, but it does not make for stirring drama. The high point
of this film is when Jordan accidentally hits another teacher with a soccer
ball and they have . . now hold on to your hats . . . a shoot out – with
soccer balls. I could hardly control my excitement.
Other than that, you have fifty or so kids
running around like they have some nervous disease – and some other people
hunting down a ghost. It is worse than you can imagine. I truly felt sorry
for Jordan for being in such a mess. Jordan – time to get a new agent!
For the first and I hope only time:
My rating for this film: 0