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Final Option 2: Best of the Best

  Country : Hong Kong
Year: 1996
Genre: Action
Format: VCD
Running Time: 1H43
Distributor: City Laser & Video LTD
Date reviewed: 03/03/01
   
Producer: Manfred Suen Wong
Director: Andrew Lau

Cast:
Daniel Chan, Mariane Chan, Julian Cheung, Roy Cheung, Shirley Cheung, Jason Chu, Yin Hong, Jun Lai, Amanda Lee, Chi-Kin Leung, Karen Mok, Annie Ng, Michael Tse, Raymond Tso

Story: The SDU are called to investigate a suspicious house, the SDU team quickly finds out the house was rigged to explode. Most of the team is killed in the explosion, the remaining team is killed by a terrorist using a rocket launcher. Only a single SDU member survives the incident, in response to the deaths the police force begins a specialized training program called BOB (Best of the Best). BOB is the answer for next generation SDU to deal with an increasingly amount of violent crimes.

Review: The movie is the sequel to Final Option but it holds no relation to the first movie other than the fact that the movie revolves around the training of SDU members. The story is focused around a group of men who volunteer to become an elite swat team, they go through and extreme selection process to find the best of the best. The story is pretty simple but it lacks elements of interest.

Unlike the Final Option the characters in Best of the Best are not that interesting, actually some of the secondary characters that you see only a little are more interesting than the main characters. The characters are not really convincing in their roles and also seem somewhat 2 dimensional (without depth). There was one big emotional conflict between two characters but it wasn't really interesting. Generally the characters did not help this movie and were pretty ordinary, even with a cast of very well know actor.

There was some action in this movie but it is not comparable to Final Option, the whole training part of the movie is pale in comparison. This is supposed to be the best of the best, the applicants don't even have basic SDU training, they can't even shoot straight and they are supposed to become the best of the best in two weeks. There was one scene with action around the end of the movie but it lacked life, you had a bunch of guys in SDU gear all ready for action but they did not seem to know what the hell they were doing. This movie in our opinion was a bad attempt to recreate the cool training and action in Final Option.

The subtitles were readable on the VCD version, a little white on white but the dialog was generally boring. We hate to say bad things about any movie but this one was plain boring in our opinion. Maybe if you never saw Final Option it could be pretty interesting but when you see a good movie and then you see another that kind of copies it but sucks well your opinion is not so high. This movie might interest action / swat team fans but we strongly suggest you rent before you buy.

 

Reviewed by Peter Zsurka

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