Police Cadet 1 (Sun Chak See Hing) |
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Cast | Character Name |
Tony Leung | Cheung Wai Kit |
Maggie Cheung MY | Wing Ci |
Carina Lau | Cheung Ka Man |
Liu Fong | Ko Lo Chuen |
Sean Lau Ching Wan | Ah Fung |
Eddie Kwan Lai Kit | Hou Jie |
Dai Zhi Wai | Cheung Ka Ming |
Plot Rating: 8.75/10
Artist Rating: 9/10
Police Cadet is broken
down into 3 parts: '84, '85, and '88. I don't think they intended
on making part 3, but it was the worse of the 3 parts. A lot of
people liked part 1 of Police Cadet the best but my favorite was
part 2. After all, how often do you get these top TVB artists in
the same series together? Part 2 had the best cast and their
acting was brilliant, not to mention the plot.
Part one of the series introduces our lead, Tony Leung, as a
person in his late teens who grew up in a single-parent family.
His father had another family outside all these years even though
he didn't divorce Tony's mom. Tony has a half sister (Carina) and
half brother (Dai Zi Wai), who near the end of the series we find
out that he wasn't even Tony's half brother. Tony was raised by
his mom because his father was a very miserly man.
Tony decides to go to Cadet School with his best friend, Liu
Fong, who has always dreamed of becoming a policeman. Cadet
School ends up being extremely difficult. Despite the hardships,
Tony becomes friends with many of the cadets. Two people he meets
are Eddie Kwan and Sean Lau. Eddie is very weak and sensitive and
many of the cadets make fun of him because of this. His uncle
sent him to cadet school because he wanted Eddie to become more
independent. Sean Lau is a year ahead of Tony and Liu Fong. He's
very athletic and Tony finds that Sean is definitely a great
competitor. The 2 become good friends later on.
Tony likes his next-door neighbor, Maggie and the 2 soon start
dating. Carina likes Sean and those 2 begin dating, despite the
fact that Liu Fong is also after Carina.
Cadet school requires a lot of athleticism and the cadets worked
very hard to graduate. Sean graduated and went off to Police
Training School (PTS) a year ahead of Tony. At the same time,
Eddie gradually learned from his mistakes and became mentally and
physically stronger. When the time came, Eddie and his class had
to complete something called the "night march", where
they have to run for many many miles.
Upon graduation, Liu Fong and Tony immediately went to PTS.
Unfortunately, Dai Zi Wai was at PTS also and he was in training
for his inspector position and he was always picking on Tony. Liu
Fong wanted to help Tony play a joke on Dai Zi Wai but instead,
he got caught and was kicked out of PTS. Tony graduated and was
transferred to the same dept as Sean. In the beginning, Tony had
a soft heart and he caused Sean's injury during an assignment.
Because of the injury, Sean could no longer engage in rigorous
exercises and he lost a chance at being promoted. He felt that
his career was over. In the end, Sean quit his job, broke off his
relationship with Carina, and left Hong Kong.
Tony was having his own problems with Maggie. Their relationship
also encountered difficulties as Eddie became the third person in
this love triangle. At work though, Tony was very successful and
he was soon promoted. He faced problems with his brother, Dai Zi
Wai, and in the end Dai Zi Wai committed suicide in front of
Tony. Dai Zi Wai had never meant to be mean to Tony, but he
didn't like being an illegitimate son and this caused his hatred
towards Tony. His goal in life was to prove that he was better
than Tony.
Sean comes back from the Philippines and it turns out that during
this time, he was being employed as an assassin. He and Carina
get back together and they get married and have a son. Sean's
gang wouldn't leave him alone and soon the entire story about him
being an assassin spilled and he was arrested and sentenced to
life imprisonment.
Eddie was also sent to jail for engaging in illegal activities
and the last scene of the series shows Maggie and Tony sitting
across from each other in a restaurant
the audience is not
sure if they will be together again.
9/25/98 updated
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