For Bad Boys Only

For Bad Boys Only is a 2000 Hong Kong science fiction action romantic comedy film directed by Raymond Yip and starring Ekin Cheng, Louis Koo, Shu Qi, Kristy Yang and Daniel Chan.

For Bad Boys Only
Film poster
TraditionalBad Boy特攻
SimplifiedBad Boy特攻
MandarinBad Boy Tè Gōng
CantoneseBad Boy Dak6 Gung1
Directed byRaymond Yip
Produced byManfred Wong
Screenplay byManfred Wong
StarringEkin Cheng
Louis Koo
Shu Qi
Kristy Yang
Daniel Chan
Music byChan Kwong-wing
Ken Chan
CinematographyLai Yiu-fai
Edited byDanny Pang Phat
Production
company
FBI TV and Film Group
Distributed byUniverse Entertainment
Release date
15 December 2000 (2000-12-15)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguageCantonese
Box officeHK$7,266,320

Plot

"For Bad Boys Only" is an unconventional detective agency which specializes in helping clients to search for reunite with their first loves. The agency is managed by King Chan (Ekin Cheng), a flirty Casanova, and his partner, Jack Shum (Louis Koo), a perfectionist, with King's younger sister, Queen (Kristy Yang), who has a soft spot for Jack, being the only employee. Recently, Taiwanese tycoon Yung Wing-hing (Ko I-chen) hires the agency to search for his ex-lover, Koon Ching (Shu Qi), whom was Asia's premier female air force pilot. At the same time, a young man named Tin-ngai also hires the agency to search for his missing girlfriend, Shadow (Shu Qi). To King and Jack, Koon Ching and Shadow look strangely identical. Making matters more bizarre, King meets an amnesic girl named Eleven (Shu Qi), who also looks identical to Shadow and Koon Ching. The amorous-natured King also falls in love with Eleven. While searching for Eleven's true identity, King and Eleven were attacked multiple times before Eleven was captured by a group of gun-wielding mysterious men. At the same time, Tin-ngai also finds Shadow, who was disfigured. It turns out that Shadow was captured by Japanese scientist Taro Sakamoto (Mark Cheng), who retrieved DNA from Koon Ching's body and injected into Shadow, hoping to create a female pilot with similar skills. However, the experiment failed and Shadow was disfigured. However, Tin-ngai's love for Shadow did not change and decides to spend the rest of his life with her.

After King and Jack learns of this, they proceed to rescue Eleven. The two of them successfully sneak into Sakamoto's base, where they find dozens of clones that look identical to Eleven, each of them with different mutations. They were all named by numbers, with Eleven being the only perfect experiment with no mutations. However, Sakamoto manipulates Eleven to go mad to kill King and Jack.

Cast

Reception

Critical

LoveHKFilm gave the film a negative review criticizing Manfred Wong's script as "overstuffed, underdeveloped, and embarrassing" and its "failed attempt" at charm and humor.[1] Andrew Saroch of Far East Films gacve the film a score of 3 out of 5 stars criticizing its uninvolving romances and characters, poor camerawok, but praises some of its special effects.[2]

Box office

The film grossed HK$7,266,320 at the Hong Kong box office during its theatrical run from 15 December 2000 to 4 January 2001.

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References
  1. "For Bad Boys Only (2000) - LoveHKFilm.com".
  2. "Far East Films - Reviews - For Bad Boys Only". Archived from the original on 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2016-02-29.
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