Leofwine_draca CITY COPS is a standard Hong Kong action vehicle for US star Cynthia Rothrock, made just before she returned to the States for the rest of her career. It's a low budget effort that's far below the likes of POLICE ASSASSINS in terms of quality, although it's not without merit for those who are fans of this girls-and-guns genre. The film was directed by Lau Kar-Wing, himself a noted martial artist and sometime actor.This film's bog-standard plotting is the worst thing about it. It sees a trio of cops, including Rothrock's character, going after the Triads who have connections with Western and Japanese gangsters. There's something about the hunt for a stolen microfilm but for the most part this is content to amble along with some very dated comedy scenes which aren't a patch on those found in the more popular Hong Kong comedies.Rothrock is an asset here but she's off screen for too long, especially in the middle section. However, I did enjoy seeing stock bad guy actor Shing Fui-On getting to play a heroic cop for a change, as he's very good at it too and a shame he was so typecast because of his face. Japanese actress Michiko Nishiwaki appears too, but only at the action climax. Speaking of which, there are some brief fights dotted throughout, but it's only at the violent warehouse climax that this film offers the kind of intense action that this genre is known for, with bullets spraying everywhere and participants squaring off for one-on-one bouts. It's good, but a little too little, too late.

ebiros2 Three detectives, two from Hong Kong (Kiu-Wai Miu, Fui-On Shing), and one from FBI (Cynthia Rothrock) goes after a diamond smuggler (Ken Tong) in Hong Kong. They capture the Japanese ring leader who's buying the diamonds, but his sister (Michiko NIshiwaki) comes in to take revenge on the smuggler who sold her brother to the police.The movie is well made. Each of the scenes are shot with beautiful background, and lighting. Hong Kong movie really had their act together by the late '80s. They had good actors, and quality production. The movie has good humor, and action. It's funny and exciting at the same time.The highlight are the fight scenes where Rothrock kicks her way through the bad guys. This is one of the best movie she's starred in. If you're a fan of Cynthia Rothrock, or Michiko Nishiwaki, you wouldn't want to miss this movie.

gridoon Cynthia Rothrock is the American FBI agent who goes to Hong Kong to capture a man who has evidence against a bigger criminal. There she has to team up with two local cops and face an army of killers who are also after her target. I've seen about 10 Cynthia Rothrock films so far, and "City Cops" has perhaps some of her best fight scenes ever. She is in GREAT form here, intense and aggressive, and at the end she gets to face (for the only time in her career) the elastic Japanese goddess Michiko Nishiwaki. She also looks quite pretty in this one, and her target's sister is a real cutie as well. Of course the movie has its flaws (there is too much bantering between the two HK cops, and too much time is spent on their romantic complications), but I'm still giving it a high rating (*** out of 4) just for the fights. Any Cynthia fan should definitely see this.

focond This movie is not that bad,but it'd have been better,if the final fight between Cynthia Rothrock and Michiko Nishiwaki had lasted longer,since both these actresses are greatly skilled in martial arts and therefore they should have displayed their fighting abilities more than they did.Instead of wanting to be funny, ironic at any cost,something which happens in almost any Hong Kong movie,it would have been far more interesting to see the differences between the two styles of fighting(Rothrock and Nishiwaki 's ). The acting of the whole cast is however unluckily blameworthy,anyway,as I said at the beginning of my review,it's not such a bad movie and I even think,it needs even a sequel;after all,if you have seen this movie, you'll know that Cynthia's opponent hasn't taken her revenge yet.