Saturday, December 29, 2012
10:30 PM
Movie Review: Playboy Cops
Watched a good Chinese movie today. I seriously don't remember the last time I watched a movie with such a good cast. Actually, I don't remember the last Chinese movie I watched.
I remember watching Ted sometime this week, but thats not chinese or asian.
ANYWAYSS, about the Chinese movie I watched today...
(click on any pic. below for larger and clearer view)
here's some background info:
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Left to right: David (dont no the person who played him),
Lincoln (played by Chen Kun),
Michael (played by Shawn Yue),
Lisa (played by Linda Chung) |
Title: Playboy Cops/花花刑警
Genre and Production: Action; Hong Kong
Starring:
- Shawn Yue as Michael Mak
- Linda Chung as Lisa
- Chen Kun as Lincoln
- Tan Jun Yan as David
- Ella Koon as one of the female police officers (not important)
- Michelle Yim as Michael's stepmom
- etc.
Release Date: February 28th, 2008
Language versions: Canto, Mandarin
Trailer (canto. version with eng. subtitles):
I watched the movie in the
mandarin version. Linda's voice was dubbed, since her mandarin really isn't that good. Chen Kun is from China so no dubbing for him. Shawn has pretty good mandarin so no dubbing for him either, his little
canto accent is so cute!
For the canto version, Linda and Shawn speaks in their real voice.
Chen Kun's dubbed.
So, the
plot goes like this:
(STOP RIGHT HERE IF U DONT CARE, OR DON'T WANT TO READ SPOILERS)
Michael Mak (played by
Shawn Yue) is a cop in C.I.D from a wealthy family. His way of solving cases is very unique; he always uses his dad's money to bribe the bad guy, to give it to victims who want to suicide, etc.. Or..well, he always ends up wasting money to solve his cases. And people say he's just wasting his dad's money, and he really has like no friends at all, except for his ex girlfriend, Lisa (played by
Linda Chung).
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Lisa (linda chung), so pretty |
Michael has a "ehhh" relationship with his dad, they barely interacts, don't see each other often etc. He also has a step mom, in which they have a decent relationship, but don't live together so little interactions too. His dad actually cares about Michael very much and helps Michael stay in the police force with his high class ways, like money or whatever. Michael also actually cares a lot about his dad, his cell's quick dial #1 is to call dad, #2 is to get money from his dad, #3 is to set up appointment with his dad/ ask his dad's assistant to find his dad.
After solving another case using money, he is called to his boss's office. While walking there, a guy dressed very similar to him (BOTH ARE
FREAKING HOT), asks for direction, and he is kinda not so happy about how the guy "supposedly" copied him. Michael is then [temporarily] put out of his job. He left, bumping into the same guy again, and then bumps into Lisa (ex gf, remember?). Turns out Lisa has a "[friendship]" date with that guy. Who's name is Lincoln (played by
Chen Kun).
Lisa is also Lincoln's assistant, along with another male assistant, named
David (played by Tan Jun Yan) that used to Lincoln's brother's assistant.
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Left to right: Lincoln and Michael (Chen Kun and Shawn, )
the scene where they were dressed the same |
Michael, obviously still likes Lisa, so he strongly dislikes Lincoln.
Lincoln's older brother and his older brother's girlfriend was
murdered. Lincoln, who used to be a police officer, but is now taking over his brother's business, decides to find out who killed his brother. Lincoln is also very wealthy but is the opposite of Michael; he doesn't waste money, etc.
Michael decides to help Lincoln but under one condition: Lincoln has to leave Lisa alone after they find the murderer. (Isn't it illegal for them to get involved in the case...? like w/o the police knowing or whatever, idkk...?)
Michael and Lincoln eventually becomes friends by putting each other down when searching for the murderer, and even shares laughter, and protects each other's lives. They both also eat dinner with Lisa once in a while throughout their [3 week] case. They all appear to be very happy even though there's a relationship triangle. But they're all friends. so yeahh.
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Left to right: Michael, Lincoln (Shawn Yue, Chen Kun)
So HOTT in those sunglasses ^.^ |
Laterr, Lincoln suddenly
faints, is sent to the hospital. And Lisa and Michael finds out previously, while he was still a cop and on a case, someone shot him in the head and he didn't bother to remove the bullet. Now, the surgeons don't have much hope if he was to perform the surgery now/in the near future.
Doctors say he has about
3 weeks left to live, and Lisa finds out the reason Lincoln didn't want to be "formally' date her was b/c of this.
Then, Michael finds out his dad has declared
bankruptcy and Michael's house is taken away from him (since it is all his dad's money). He packs a luggage and sleeps in the hospital with Lincoln. (really cute relationship here with Lincoln and Michael!)
Next morning, Lisa calls Michael to inform him that she saw his dad by the dock. Michael gets there, he comforts him, (although it looked like he didn't need much comfort), and then they agreed to have dinner. But, phone arrives, Lincoln had news about the murderer, and Michael's dad says if its for work, we can have dinner another day. So they planned and
PROMISED to have dinner tomorrow.
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That's mah boyy, Michael (Shawn) |
Michael is informed that Lincoln's business has an annual cruise party (high class ppl) and some bad guys come to
kidnap Lisa and some other rich business man. Michael and Lincoln then gets phone call from bad guy telling them both to get money and later they will be told directions. Michael is stressed since he doesn't have the large amount of money, and Lincoln (since hes still rich) says that i'll provide you your money.
The next day...
(STOP RIGHT HERE IF U DONT CARE ANYMORE, GET TIRED OF READING, OR IF U WANT TO WATCH THE MOVIE URSELF, CUZ THERE'S EVEN MORE SPOILERS AHEAD.)
They get the money, and then is told by the bad guy to get out of the car, and get another ten thousand dollars each from anyone on the street, or to steal, whatever, but no going to the bank to get money. They had a time limit and the begged everyone, tried to sell their car, but nothing worked. The murderer tells them both to bark like a dog to the passerbys, they do, and then were told to get in a white van. They are knocked out, and wakes up to be
locked up. Lisa is tied up on a chair on the outside of their cage.
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Lisa (played by Linda Chung)
Linda in 2008...she had bangs?? |
Murderer turns out to be David (Lincoln's brother's assistant, and Lincoln's assistant too, after Lincoln takes over his bro's business, REMEMBER?!?) (That was veryyy unexpected for me, cuz his assistant was freaking loyal and nice and all that. ) David tells them that Lincoln's bro treated him cruelly, sometimes abused him, and even took David's gf and had
sex with her. From that point on, he
hated rich people, and yeahh.
David (murderer assistant) then told Lincoln and Michael to
fight each other until one of them dies, and the other can take Lisa and go. David threatened to
cut off all of Lisa's fingers if they did not do so. So they start "playfully" push and punch each other around. David gets pissed and tells them he wants to see blood, and angrily
chops off Lisa's pinky finger. Seeing this, Lincoln and Michael starts to get violent with each other to save Lisa's life.
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Lincoln (Chen Kun(: ) |
On the side, outside the gate, David's assistants in the evil plan is splitting& counting money, then one of them gets up to say that they've left the most amount of money for him, and they're leaving. David says i thought we're in this together, to the very end, we'll share more stuff, we'll get more rich. The assistant says we're not like you, we don't hurt girls (and they obviously didn't know David was taking it
this far), right now you're just a crazy dog. David then
shoots all of this assistants.
Lincoln and Michael stops to watch, after the shooting, David yells at them to continue and puts a gun to Lisa's head. They both yelled out "noo, come in here, kill me. kill me first, don't kill her" but lisa told David to kill her. David tells Lisa but I want to kill the boys first,(wanna make Lisa watch them die), and then abuses and injures Lisa again. Lincoln and Michael attempts to break the metal fence. In the end, Lisa's chair helped the
fence break and they got out, both attacking David.
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Left to right: Michael and Lincoln (Shawn, Chen Kun) |
David whips out the gun, ready to shoot, but Michael grabs a hold of him spun him around and pointed the gun in a safe direction while David shot madly in the air. David runs out of fire and tries to run away. Michael runs after him, then stops to fight. Michael is hurt quite badly. Finally, Lisa, Michael, and Lincoln knocks him out (pretty sure hes dead for good), and then ties up his hands for just in case.
All three are injured and hurt pretty badly. Lisa talks to Lincoln while Michael drags himself into a near wall. Then they both drag themselves to where Michael is. Michael repeats the words "中了" several times. (hard to translate to english.)
(STOP RIGHT HERE IF U GOT TIRED OF READING, OR IF U WANT TO WATCH THE MOVIE URSELF, OR DON'T WANT TO KNOW THE ENDING, CUZ ITS SAD.)
Michael tells them that while he chased and fought David, he got
stabbed into his back waist area REALLYY bad, like it went IN. He then says to lisa "tell me u still love me, tell me." lisa says, on the verge of tearing up, "can we not talk about his, this is not the time." michael says in a really weak voice, "why can't u just comfort me?" lisa says, half crying" i dont want to lie to you,
i don't like you that way." michael says"ur no fun. I'm not gonna die anymore." lisa playfully hits michael and says "u were fooling around with me?"
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ohmygawd, Michael (Shawn) is so hottt |
Michael then drags himself up and walks really slowly away. But he was too weak and had to stop and sit. Lincoln noticed lots of
blood dripping from him as he walked and quickly ran to Michael. they said some stuff. and then Michael says "
wait, i can't die yet. I promised to eat dinner with my mom and dad." then lincoln says u cant die, i still have to go through my brain surgery, and i'll survive it, and we'll all be best friends, etc." michael says to him"take care of lisa, etc." and then u can see that a huge amount of
blood is piled up around Michael, and he finally
dies. Lincoln and Lisa cries in pain.
The camera then moves over to Michael's dad and stepmom sitting at the dining room table. The stepmom says"
we have to wait until Michael comes. he promised."
Camera then moves over to like
6 or 10 years later, something like that.
Lincoln and Lisa are at
Michael's grave. They are married, Lisa is also pregnant. Lincoln survived his brain surgery and says "
We have decided to name our son's english name Michael. I always thought i was the one that won't survive, never expected you to go before me. don't worry about ur parents, they're good, i'll take good care of them."
THE END.
okay, i just have to say one thing. I'm crying as I type up the last 4 paragraphs before "the end"
and i was crying while watching the movie too. just so sad.
I reallly didn't expect Michael to die either. omg....
But i guess, either Michael or Lincoln had to die cuz lisa can't end up with both. And in Lisa's heart, she really loves Lincoln, only thinks of Michael as a bestie.
Michael (Shawn Yue) was sooooo hot in the movie, like the way he dressed, the way he acted, the way he talked (mandarin with slight canto accent) was sooo adorable!
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Left to right: Lincoln, Lisa, Michael
(Chen Kun, Linda Chung, Shawn Yue)
OMG Linda in the old days... |
of course, Lincoln (Chen Kun) was reallly cute too. I think I'll have an obsession with him real soon.
And Lisa (Linda Chung) is my favorite actress.
So reallyy good cast, since I already know all of them beforehand too. (Chen Kun not so much, only knew him from the video "beijing welcomes you". but def. really familiar with linda and shawn)And I really would've never expected Linda and Shawn to be in a movie together *FANGIRL*
Great movie, violent at times. But I'd say a
GREAT MOVIE to end the year 2012.
Definitely a
must watch if you're up for
hot guys and action and a touching story.
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