From Amazon.com
Former Miss Malaysia and current butt-kicking Hong Kong action star Michelle Yeoh leaped to international attention costarring alongside Jackie Chan in
Supercop. The film was actually the third installment of Chan's successful
Police Story series, but that didn't stop cagey producers from turning out
Supercop 2 as a solo vehicle for the lean, lithe Yeoh. She travels from mainland China to Hong Kong to "advise" local cops on a Chinese drug lord and discovers Rong Guang Yu (from
Iron Monkey and
Rock and Roll Cop), her former lover and now the leader of a militia-style gang in partnership with her quarry. Yeoh is in fine form, kicking off the picture with a thrilling close-quarters battle in a high-rise hotel, but the complicated plot of high tech crime, double crosses, and conflicted loyalties strangles the action and slows the film despite such action highlights as an impressive three-man raid on a well-armed criminal den. (Jackie Chan's jokey cameo as a cop in drag doesn't really help matters.) The film finally regains its energy in an explosive free-for-all bank heist climax, in which the painful English dubbing becomes all but unnoticeable as bullets fly, bodies crunch, and balletic Michelle Yeoh moves like a dynamo.
--Sean Axmaker
Review
This strong follow-up to 1992's Supercop puts Michelle Yeoh in the lead role, with an excellent supporting cast that includes Yu Rongguang and Fan Siu-Wong. Yeoh reprises her role as Inspector Yang, sent to Hong Kong to help the local police uncover a gang of thieves. The fact that Yang's boyfriend (Yu Rongguang) has risen to a leadership role in said gang is revealed during an expertly staged shootout that sets the tone for the remainder of the film, up to and including an explosive climax in a subway tunnel. Much darker than previous installments of the Police Story series, it has only a brief and not entirely relevant cameo from Jackie Chan to lighten the mood. The film lacks much of anything in the way of denouement, with simply a voice-over following a final, tragic scene that leaves one feeling curiously dissatisfied. Still, Yeoh's stunts and martial arts work are worth the price of admission, and the major reason to see this. Her hand-to-hand scene against an opponent who appears to be twice her size remains impressive. Some attempts at comic relief grow scarcer toward the film's end, and nothing really relieves the harsh abruptness of the ending, but overall, it's entertaining enough. ~ Genevieve Williams, All Movie Guide
