I had the opportunity to sit down and watch the 1998 Hong Kong crime action movie "Ye Shou Xing Jing" (aka "Beast Cops") from writers Gordon Chan and Hing-Ka Chan here in 2023, and of course I did so. I have seen the movie once before, though I have forgotten all about it except for the title.
Directors Gordon Chan and Dante Lam didn't really deliver a particularly impressive crime action movie here. And there are far better movies of that genre from around the same time in the Hong Kong cinema. And that makes "Ye Shou Xing Jing" feel generic and sort of bland. Truth be told, then the narrative in the movie is rather slow paced, and it didn't really help that the character gallery in the movie was rather mundane and not characters I took a particular liking to.
I figured that with the movie having the likes of Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Stephanie Che and Sam Lee on the cast list, then the movie would prove to be an adequate one. But even the likes of Anthony Chau-Sang Wong does strike out once in a while, and "Ye Shou Xing Jing" was one such time.
Sure, "Ye Shou Xing Jing" was watchable for what it was, but it was a rather bland and forgettable movie from writers Gordon Chan and Hing-Ka Chan. And thus, "Ye Shou Xing Jing" is not a movie I would recommend fans of the Hong Kong cinema to rush out and get to watch.
My rating of "Ye Shou Xing Jing" lands on a four out of ten stars.
Directors Gordon Chan and Dante Lam didn't really deliver a particularly impressive crime action movie here. And there are far better movies of that genre from around the same time in the Hong Kong cinema. And that makes "Ye Shou Xing Jing" feel generic and sort of bland. Truth be told, then the narrative in the movie is rather slow paced, and it didn't really help that the character gallery in the movie was rather mundane and not characters I took a particular liking to.
I figured that with the movie having the likes of Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Stephanie Che and Sam Lee on the cast list, then the movie would prove to be an adequate one. But even the likes of Anthony Chau-Sang Wong does strike out once in a while, and "Ye Shou Xing Jing" was one such time.
Sure, "Ye Shou Xing Jing" was watchable for what it was, but it was a rather bland and forgettable movie from writers Gordon Chan and Hing-Ka Chan. And thus, "Ye Shou Xing Jing" is not a movie I would recommend fans of the Hong Kong cinema to rush out and get to watch.
My rating of "Ye Shou Xing Jing" lands on a four out of ten stars.