Cop action movie clumsily inter-cut with slapstick. Dumb cop befriends triad guy who wants to go straight but is being set up by his unscrupulous drug dealing colleagues.
Stunts
Practical action sequences that deserve better editing
Acting
Nicky Wu commits harder than the script deserves
Director
Clarence Ford
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Clarence Ford mysteriously vanished from filmmaking after this, leaving Thunder Cop as his chaotic swan song.
This captures the desperate late-90s Hong Kong industry moment when every production tried to crack the Jackie Chan formula—and most face-planted.
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