Sort of a sequel or followup or offshoot or something of Jackie Chan's Supercop which featured Michelle Yeoh as his action partner. After taking an extended break, Yeoh was restarting her film career and was lucky enough to hook up with Jackie Chan who turned out to be her perfect action partner. Supercop 2 was clearly an attempt to showcase Yeoh and her action and stunt skills.
Yeoh is a superb action hero in this film, unfortunately it's not much of a film. Yeoh plays police inspector Jessica Yang whose ex boyfriend has become the leader of a gang of bank robbers in Hong Kong. I suppose what could have been an interesting plot line about love vs duty is for the most part a fairly pedestrian and uninvolved story line.
The chief draw of Supercop 2 are the action sequences as only the Hong Kong stuntmen could do them back in the 1980's and 90's. Lots of gunfights, car chases and especially martial arts action which in particular shows off Yeoh's skills who was a former dancer now turned stunt woman and Yeoh is a rather petite woman which is all the more impressive.
Jackie Chan shows up at one point in the film in drag of all things. He's in another broad comedic scene that he likes to include in his films. In this film it's kind of stupid. The film is directed by Hong Kong action veteran Stanley Tong who was certainly an experienced hand at making these kind of films. Again, not much of a film but the real show is watching Michelle Yeoh in her prime as an action hero. Supercop 2 is on YouTube in a decent English dubbed version if you want to take a look.
The film was written by Stanley Tong and Sandy Shaw, the running time is 104 minutes.
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