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BULLETS OVER SUMMER

爆裂刑警

By Wilson YIP

KANI RELEASING - as DISTR DVD-video, North America

Drama - Completed 1999

Plainclothes officers Mike (Francis Ng) and Brian (Louis Koo) form a fortuitous family unit during a stakeout, in Wilson Yip’s (Ip Man) playful sitcom subversion of bullet ballet expectations.

- Year of production
- 1999
- Genres
- Drama, Action/Adventure
- Countries
- HONG KONG (CHINA)
- Languages
- CANTONESE
- Duration
- 92 mn
- Director(s)
- Wilson YIP
- Cast
- Louis KOO, Francis NG, Helena LAW LAN, Michelle SARAM, Stephanie LIM
- Synopsis
- Plainclothes officers Mike (Francis Ng) and Brian (Louis Koo) are on the trail of trigger-happy fugitive Dragon. Planning a stakeout, they commandeer the apartment of an elderly woman (Helena Law Lan) who mistakes them for her estranged grandsons. Their mission is further disrupted by wandering schoolgirl Yen (Michelle Saram) and Mike’s nascent feelings for the neighborhood’s laundress (Stephanie Lim) – who complete the fortuitous family unit put at risk when Dragon and his goons come knocking.
  
  Part of a winning trio of genre-benders bookended by Bio Zombie (1999) and Juliet in Love (2000), Bullets Over Summer showcases Hong Kong action auteur Wilson Yip (Ip Man, SPL) at his most playful and unpredictable. Inspired by 1987’s Stakeout, this bullet ballet is subverted by a warm sitcom premise, culminating in the unlikeliest of hangout movies about fate, coincidence and finding one’s chosen family. Toying with expectations for heroic bloodshed, and lensed by Fruit Chan’s cinematographer Lam Wah-Chuen on the heels of Made in Hong Kong (1997), Bullets Over Summer is a unique example of Hong Kong cinema’s ingenuity and the 1990’s effortless cool.