Reviewed by: mrblue Date: 09/17/2005 The plot here is your usual Danny Lee cop stuff -- he plays (what else) a hot-headed policeman who becomes personally involved in a gunrunning case after his wife (Teresa Mo) is attacked by some gangsters led by Ben Lam. During this period, there were literally dozens of similar films produced , and Red Shield offers nothing new to the mix. There are a couple of decent gunfights bracketing the movie, but there's very little else of interest here. Most of the film's running time is taken up with the domestic problems Lee and Mo (and also Lee's partner Leung Kar Yan and his wife Yip San) are dealing with, broken up by the occasional violent scene, such as when Lam and his crony Yuen Wah take out rival crime boss Shing Fui-On with a chainsaw. Red Shield isn't a bad movie -- action junkies will be able to pull out at least a little enjoyment from the proceedings. It's just that there are a lot of other movies that do a better job at what they set out to do, rather than becoming just another cookie-cutter clone cop action picture. [review from www.hkfilm.net]

Reviewed by: hokazak Date: 12/09/1999 Cops after gun-traffickers, possible police corruption.

Reviewed by: kachun Date: 12/09/1999 Danny Lee stars in this police drama as Lui Te Ken, a member of the Royal HK Police's SDU unit who is teamed up with Wong Tin Tang (Leung Ka Yan) to chase after a particularly brutal band of arms smugglers. Shing Fui On makes an appearance as rival triad boss Shing Bill, who Lui and Wong try to tap for information. The movie has a moderately interesting plot, which includes parallel revenge motifs between the police and the triad members, but is ultimately muddled by bits of dumb humor as Wong chases after his wife who he suspects of cheating on him. Teresa Mo is completely wasted as Lui's suffering wife, whom Lui never seems to have time for. Her character is mousy and exists only to serve one or two plot points. (Is it my imagi- nation or has Teresa Mo been relegated to playing only two different roles: the quiet wife/girlfriend type and the rebellious teen/young woman type?) There are a few gripping moments in the film, particularly in the scene where Lui and Wong enter a Vietnamese refugee camp to capture a suspect. The film also appears to be more realistic than many of the other Hong Kong police movies, by actually having the police members speak *English* to British comrades and vice versa, instead of having non-Chinese speak perfect Cantonese or talk in Cantonese with an unplaceable accent. However the poorly handled relationships between the husbands, Wong and Lui, and their wives, manages to detract viewers from the other better made aspects of the film.