Supercop 2
Former Miss Malaysia and current butt-kicking Hong Kong action star Michelle Yeoh leaped to international attention costarring alongside Jackie Chan inSupercop. The film was actually the third installment of Chan's successfulPolice Storyseries, but that didn't stop cagey producers from turning outSupercop 2as a solo vehicle for the lean, lithe Yeoh. She travels from mainland China to Hong Kong to "advise" local cops on a Chinese drug lord and discovers Rong Guang Yu (fromIron MonkeyandRock and Roll Cop), her former lover and now the leader of a militia-style gang in partnership with her quarry. Yeoh is in fine form, kicking off the picture with a thrilling close-quarters battle in a high-rise hotel, but the complicated plot of high tech crime, double crosses, and conflicted loyalties strangles the action and slows the film despite such action highlights as an impressive three-man raid on a  well-armed criminal den. (Jackie Chan's jokey cameo as a cop in drag doesn't really help matters.) The film finally regains its energy in an explosive  free-for-all bank heist climax, in which the painful English dubbing becomes all  but unnoticeable as bullets fly, bodies crunch, and balletic Michelle Yeoh moves like a dynamo.--Sean Axmaker