Heat Team
2004
Director: Dante Lam
Stars: Aaron Kwok, Eason Chan, Yumiko Cheng, Huang Pin Yuan, Dave Wong, Danny Lee
Heat Team is pretty much your standard "buddy cop" movie. This time out, Aaron Kwok plays the straight-laced stone-faced one (wow, big surprise) and Eason Chan is the "loose cannon". They're paired together by their captain (Danny Lee, who really looks like he needs a nap) to team up with a tough Interpol commander (Yumiko Cheng) to bring down a high-profile jewelry thief (Dave Wong). Of course, the partners hate each other at first, but bond together long enough to take on the bad guy.
There's really nothing going on here that's worth noticing. Besides a Heat-inspired firefight on a freeway, there's very little -- if anything -- that sets Heat Team apart from the billion other films of this type which have proceeded it. Still, the movie does deliver a kind of nice mindless popcorn fluff which hits the spot when you're sitting around with a case of beer and some people to cap on it with.
RATING: 5
DVD Information
Zoke - catalog number 80334
A low-budget DVD with no extras and bad picture quality. The sound mix is okay, but there is only a Mandarin soundtrack. It's watchable, but just barely.