I Corrupt All Cops (DVD) (Hong Kong Version) DVD Region All
Eason Chan (Actor)
| Tony Leung Ka Fai (Actor)
| Anthony Wong (Actor)
| Wong Jing (Actor, Director, Producer)
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Kevin Kennedy
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August 24, 2009
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August 24, 2009
Compulsively watchable epic
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"I Corrupt All Cops" is a credible, entertaining take on the efforts of Hong Kong's ICAC to break the stranglehold of corruption over the British colony's police force. At the heart of the corruption is Chief Inspector Lak (Tony Leung Ka-Fai), who has divided up the turfs of the rival triad gangs and now collects protection money from them. He justifies his corruption by arguing that his efforts actually have helped to reduce crime by keeping a lid on gang wars and, in essence, rationing the levels of permissible crime. Director Wong Jing plays (with great relish) Lak's bag man, Gold, who collects the protection money from the crooks and spreads it around among the police. Eason Chan is Gau, Lak's self-described 'bootlicker', a man who, while thoroughly corrupted, somehow manages to retain an essentially kind nature; he has acquired nine wives by taking on Lak's hand-me-down girlfriends, but overlooks the only woman who realy loves him -- his fourth wife, nicely played by Kate Tsui -- to give his heart to up-and-coming drug-dealer Rose (Liu Yang). Detective Lun (Anthony Wong) is allowing his addictions to alcohol and gambling turn him into an embarrassment to Chief Inspector Lak's enterprise. Lun hits rock bottom when he discovers his girlfriend in bed with Lak. (Meng Yao may have saved her career with this memorable performance in a small role as Lun's girlfriend, a floozy from Shanxi whom Lun insists on calling "Shanghai girl".) When intrepid Inspector Yin (Bowie Lam) persuades Lun to join his newly-established ICAC, the battle for Hong Kong's future is joined. As Wong Jing revs this story up in the film's first half, he produces some of his most gripping, effective film-making, fired by Tony Leung's relentlessly ruthless performance. The movie's second half is less consistent. Some of the scenes seem a bit underwritten and underrehearsed and, in order to keep the film under two hours, some developments are given short shrift. There really is enough story here for a mini-series. Nonetheless, I was thoroughly entertained from start to finish and can recommend "I Corrupt All Cops" highly. |
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