One day Zack and I walked to our local video rental store and wanted to rent something crazy. We saw Gen-X Cops on the shelf and almost died laughing. Three Chinese teens trying to look hip doing kicks on the cover combined with the term Gen-X. What isn’t there to like? Or so we thought at the time.

You know, you might have read some of my other reviews and thought, why does Mat give positive reviews? Well, read this review for the insulting side of Mat.

It starts off OK. Some people get killed by some Chinese gangsters and the police flounder about doing nothing. Some teens in training for the police force quit because they think it sucks. A bumbling detective hires these “wild teens” as undercover teens to find out who the gangsters are. They sneak into a club, beat up people, get captured, beat up people, speak with bad dubbing, beat up people, and do this for two hours, and beat up people.

The bad dubbing is hilarious, but doesn’t save the movie. It drags on and on. Even though it’s called Gen-X Cops, nothing about the teens seems hip or rebellious. They wear stupid looking clothes, and act even stupider.

Rent this movie if you want to be tortured. It hurts me to write this much about a piece of crap like this. Watch for Jackie Chan at the end of the movie in a cameo. Oh yeah, the bumbling detective dies and goes floating on a parachute for ten minutes.

I give Gen-X Cops * out of ****.

       First of all, I have to disagree with Mat. The dubbing was hilariously bad, and so was a lot of the acting, but I still found this movie to be quite entertaining. Even if it was sometimes hard to follow, goofiness of the main characters makes it all better. There is also kung-fu. It's mediocre kung-fu, but it's kung-fu none-the-less. This movie is a good example of a movie that you know is bad, but you're still compelled to watch it. Actually, this movie is pretty bad, but I still enjoyed it. Sort of. There should have been more Jackie Chan.

**1/2 out of ****