MAGNIFICENT TEAM is an offbeat Hong Kong crime thriller made late in the 1990s. It has that same youthful vibrancy about it that marks the genre at the tail-end of the millennium, and although heavily stylised it's not as dated as comparable fare from Hollywood. The story, which follows a new police squad as it hunts down a violent gang of robbers, is reasonable enough and works well when it follows the police procedural structure in the first half. However, the second involves a rather boring sub-plot with Francis Ng's character, and I ended up finding it quite tiresome, although there's some action at the climax.

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