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Information
- A.k.a.
- Tiger on Beat
- Year
- 1988
- Runtime
- 88 min.
- Director
- Chia-Liang Liu
- Genres
- Action, Crime, Comedy
- Rating *
- 7.1
- Votes *
- 930
- Checks
- 243
- Favs
- 9
- Dislikes
- 1
- Favs/checks
- 3.7% (1:27)
- Favs/dislikes
- 9:1
Top comments
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Siskoid
In the late 80s, the "historical" kung fu film was on a big downturn in Hong Kong, while modern crime flicks were the all the rage thanks to hits like Police Story. Lau Kar-leung tries to bring some of his kung fu stylings to Tiger on the Beat, a buddy cop comedy starring Chow Yun-fat as a slick ladies' man and Conan Lee as a recklessly violent rookie - Gordon Liu is the more interesting of the villains - but the interesting action takes an hour to arrive, and the violence is the one thing his kung fu films' was not - sadistic. The female characters are very badly served in this, and the romance subplots ludicrous given the jerks involved. So it really hinges on the last half hour, which really does have some spectacular stunts and fights. It's Lau Kar-leung doing Gun Fu the way he would be doing "weapons of Shaolin" type action in a different film. If only they could have figured out that was the real strength here while the script was being written. 11 months 2 weeks ago -
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