Future Cops

Future Cops
Official poster
Directed by	Wong Jing
Written by	Wong Jing
Produced by	John Higgins
Starring	Andy Lau Jacky Cheung Aaron Kwok Chingmy Yau Dicky Cheung Simon Yam Ekin Cheng Winnie Lau Charlie Yeung Andy Hui Ken Lo Billy Chow
Cinematography	Andrew Lau
Edited by	Poon Hung
Music by	Marco Wan Lee Hon-kam
Production companies	Fantasy Productions Wong Jing's Workshop Ltd.
Distributed by	Golden Harvest
Release date	15 July 1993 (1993-07-15)
Running time	95 minutes
Country	Hong Kong
Language	Cantonese
Box office	HK$18,294,196

Future Cops (Chinese: 超級學校霸王; literal title: Super-School Tyrant) is a 1993 Hong Kong action-comedy film loosely based on the Street Fighter video game franchise, starring an ensemble cast of Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, Aaron Kwok, Chingmy Yau, Dicky Cheung and Simon Yam.

It was the second live-action film to feature characters inspired by the Street Fighter series, the first being City Hunter starring Jackie Chan, which was also directed by Wong Jing, but released 6 months earlier. The following year the official Street Fighter motion picture was released, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme.

Plot

In the year 2043, an evil crime lord The General is trying to take over the world. He was arrested and was sentenced to jail by the Judge. The General's minions, Kent, Thai King, and Toyota travel to the year 1993 to kill the Judge before he has a chance to get into office. During a battle with The General's minions, the Future Cops Lung, Broomhead, Ti Man, and Sing hear of their plot. The Police Director decides to send them back to the past also to protect the Judge. Lung ultimately stays behind because he is the Police Director's brother in law.

Once the Future Cops get to 1993, they land in the backyard of 20-something year old high school student Tai-Hung, who helps them stay under cover by letting them live with him and his family. Ti Man pretends to be a fellow student while striking up a romance with Tai-Hung's sister Chun-May; Broomhead pretends to be a music teacher at the school while also striking up a romance with one of the students, Crab Angel; while Sing follows Tai-Hung pretending to be his servant, all the while protecting him from the evil school bullies, while Tai-Hung pursues a romance of his own with his long-time friend, Choi-Nei. Eventually the villains show up, wreak havoc, and many battles ensue.

Kent also goes undercover as a teacher in an effort to find out the identity of Tai-Hung. He subtly ambushes Ti Man with poison that regresses his intelligence to those of a 5-year old, before tricking Crab Angel into bringing him to a lover's spot. Broomhead tails them, and after a series of fights, decides not to kill Kent. Kent, not wanting to owe him a favour, injects the antidote into Ti Man before leaving.

The General eventually takes over the school as the principal and has the school in a lockdown to force the cops to hand over Tai-Hung.

At Tai-Hung's birthday party, he realizes that the villains are after him and wishes to coward his way out of the situation. This continues even after the cops inject microchips into Tai-Hung, Chun-May, Tai-Hung's father and Tai-Hung's mother to give them super powers.

The cops confront the villains in the school. After crashing his hoverboard into the school building, Tai-Hung manages to awaken his powers. Meanwhile, the other heroes fight with The General, but are unable to defeat him. Kent, disagreeing with the way The General approaches the matter, becomes a turncoat and joins in the fight. Only when all the heroes join forces are they able to win.

Cast

Actor/Actress	Role	Hanzi
Andy Lau	Ti Man	鐵面
Jacky Cheung	Broomhead	掃把頭
Aaron Kwok	Lung	阿龍
Chingmy Yau	Chun-may	春美
Dicky Cheung	Chan Tai-hung	陳大雄 余鐵雄
Simon Yam	Sing	發達星 八大師兄
Ekin Cheng	Kent	阿健
Winnie Lau	Siu-Wai	小慧
Charlie Yeung	Choi-nei	采妮
Andy Hui	Kei-on	余忌安
Ken Lo	General	將軍
Billy Chow	Thai King	泰王
William Duen	Toyota	豐田
Kingdom Yuen	Chun-doi	春代
Richard Ng	Uncle Richard Yu	青狼
Natalis Chan	Sports Announcer
Dennis Chan	Headmaster
Newton Lai	Future Cops Commander
Dave Lam	Discipline teacher
Lee Siu-kei	Plumber
Fanny Leung	CR3
Sam Hoh	Leon Lai
Lam Foo-wai	School Bully

Game references and differences

• In the final battle of the film, Chun-may and her mother simultaneously (both dressed as Chun-Li) perform Chun-Li's "yatta!" win animation from Street Fighter II.
• In the scene where Ti Man and Chun-may are on a date at an arcade, they jump into a game of Super Mario World.
• When Tai-hung wakes up to his abilities as Yu Tit-hung, he is dressed up as the character Son Goku from the Dragon Ball franchise.
• Kei-on is seen playing an actual Street Fighter II game in the arcades.

External links

• Future Cops at IMDb
• Future Cops movie trailer on YouTube