# City Cops

City Cops Director: Lau Kar-wing Year: 1989 Rating: 5.5 City Cops is representative to a large degree of the mid-budget action Hong Kong films of the 1980's with a script that looks to have been found in a garbage can after a cocaine party, some tasteless comedy, a few solid action stars and a couple terrific knock down sequences that look very painful for the participants. I am fairly surprised I never saw this previously - and this is from a horribly dubbed version on YouTube - especially considering that a few of the action stars that I like are in this. It is directed by Lau Kar-wing (brother of Lau Kar- leung) who was the action choreographer of tons of films - and acted in many of those - and in truth isn't that great a director but he knows how to stage a fight. These are just brutally acrobatic with some flips and hits (shown in slow-mo) that would leave your mouth wide open if you hadn't seen a bunch of these sorts of action films previously. This is a little unusual in that it has a bunch of foreign action stars in it. The Gweilo contingent consists of Cynthia Rothrock, Mark Houghton, Ken Goodman and John Ladalski and we also get Japanese action star Michiko Nishiwaki. You can spot Goodman and Ladalski playing thugs in a few other Hong Kong action films such as She Shoots Straight, Outlaw Brothers. Armour of God, City War, Burning Ambition and others - usually getting killed at some point or if not killed getting the crap beaten out of them. Houghton also almost…

- Kind: Feature
- Year: 2026
- By: KonCategoryIII
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/city-cops)
- Licence or status: [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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