Director: Lau Kar Leung
Cast: Danny Lee Sau Yin, Conan Lee Yuen-Ba, Ellen Chan, Roy Cheung, John Cheung, Chim Bing Hei, Norman Chu, Maria Cordero, Mark Houghton, Phillip Ko, Gordon Liu, Mai Te-Lo, James Wong, Xiong Xin Xin
Running Time: 94 min.
By Z Ravas
Producer A: Hey, we’re doing a sequel to Tiger on the Beat, but Chow Yun-fat doesn’t want to come back. What should we do?
Producer B: Just get the other guy from The Killer!
Do you imagine that’s how it went down? The other guy from The Killer, of course, being the Super Infra-Man himself, Danny Lee! Tiger on the Beat 2 is one of those sequels in name only that doesn’t have any story connection to the first installment, it’s really just an excuse to do another buddy-action flick co-starring Conan Lee. I’d call it a ‘buddy cop flick’ except that Conan Lee doesn’t even play a cop this time around. Danny Lee, of course, plays a cop—please show me an 80’s or 90’s Hong Kong movie where he doesn’t—who’s tasked with finding his California-born nephew a wife while he visits Hong Kong. This simple set-up very soon finds them bumping into an escort/scam artist played by Ellen Chan, who is on the run from a vicious drug dealer (Gordon Liu, also returning from Tiger on the Beat but playing a different character). This ends up being the perfect excuse for a string of dynamic action setpieces, courtesy of director Lau Kar-Leung…
…though not every setpiece went according to plan: Tiger on the Beat 2 tends to be overshadowed by its predecessor, but chances are if you’ve heard of the sequel it’s because of its reputation as the film that put the kibosh on Conan Lee’s career. There’s an outrageous stunt gone wrong that occurs fairly early in the movie’s runtime—and, this being Hong Kong action cinema, the footage was kept in the film!—in which Conan Lee suffered a severe injury. The complications Continue reading




























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