Overview: After seeing off hopping corpses in Mr. Vampire, the great Lam Ching-ying (Enter the Dragon, Eastern Condors) faces a new supernatural challenge: someone is using the living dead to smuggle drugs into modern day Hong Kong and only Lam’s Officer Feng - policeman and Taoist master - can stop them, proving the power of traditional Chinese magic in the process!

Mixing comedy, action and esoteric lore, Magic Cop sees the incomparable Lam at his brilliant best. 88 Films are proud to present this gorgeously restored treat from the golden age of Hong Kong cinema.

Blu-ray Verdict: OK, sure, the movie has a basic plot line, one of good guy v. bad guy, but the brilliant twist here is that the good guy is a cop who happens to be a sorcerer and the bad guy (or should I say girl) is a sorceress!

So what we have is a sorcerer of very European heritage and magic, albeit shown through the prism of a Taoist spirituality, which makes this film even more interesting to watch. And even though the effects are, at times, on the substandard side of things (as it wasn’t filmed in Hollywood), they are still very much what everyone expects from the great 88 Films company.

A zombie, or as the film terms it, a walking cadaver, rampages through a restaurant carrying a case of drugs. The police are a little confused that this person is able to withstand multiple gunshots and being smashed apart by cars, and thus this attracts the attention of a retired sergeant.

In the opening sequence we are shown that he has extensive knowledge on dealing with the spirit world and he even saves an unfortunate mother and daughter from the anger of their ancestors. And so he comes onto the scene, but nothing is easy for him, as he is initially rejected by his peers as being unorthodox and trapped in a world that does not exist.

This changes when they discover that he is able to garner information above and beyond any normal person ever could, and goes even further in being able to tell the local police that at the helm of this drug ring is a powerful sorceress that is using her dark arts in a skeptical world to advance her power.

Magic Cop is a great movie, because it successfully ties together a swords and sorcery feel to the modern world. It is also a movie where magic is tossed freely and evil witches try to take control of our heroes at even given turn.

In closing, the action scenes in this film are just a pure, unadulterated joy to watch. Ching-Ying Lam’s character performs complex, incense-heavy banishment rituals in cartoonish flurries of ultra-precise acrobatics, drawing glyph’s with melted wax and controlling wafts of smoke with elegant absurdity. It truly has to be seen to be believed!

Special Features:
High Definition (1080p) Presentation in 1.85:1 Aspect Ratio
2.0 DTS-HD MA Cantonese Soundtrack with newly translated English Subtitles
Audio commentary by Frank Djeng