Dragon (Ronald Cheng), Gold (CHEUNG Tat-Ming) and Hei (Sam Lee) are three spoiled rich brats who hang around playing, eating and doing nothing. Their frustrated and annoyed fathers force them to enter police academy become worthy cops or else they will hand out their inheritance at a subway station. Reluctantly entering the police academy, their primary goal is to get expelled but without success. Until one day, Dragon meets the adorable Stephy (Stephy Tang), a fellow cadet. From then on, he suddenly devotes all his energies into the police training, if only to capture her attention. Dragon Loaded, in the tradition of the Police Academy comedy series or maybe even the Hong Kong spin-off four-part series Naughty Cadets of Patrol (the Chief-of-Police in Dragon Loaded is Eric Tsang who was also the star of the Naughty Cadets of Patrol series), is a screwball style police comedy. Parodying Neo's karate training session in The Matrix, seducing a criminal by taking off his trousers, much-used formula driven comedy situations and the use of Ghostbusters like equipment and props to capture the criminals. Even crucial scenes from sober police action films like Johnny To’s PTU and Gordon Chan’s The Final Option are parodied. Actor director Vincent Kok, along with Cheung Tat-Ming, Kar-Ying Law, Eric Kot and a few others are considered members of the so-called ‘Stephen Chow clan.’ Like Ping Ho Cheung’s You Shoot, I Shoot(2001), Dragon Loaded is another ‘Stephen Chow film without Stephen Chow’ lineage. Above all, the film previews a ‘birth of a new star’ in Ronald Cheung who plays the character of Dragon. Debuting in Lam Oi Wah’s Twelve Nights (2000) and co-starring with Tony Leung in Vincent Kok’s My Lucky Star(2003) where he even matching Tony Leung’s popularity. Earning the reputation as the next Stephen Chow Dragon Loaded is his first leading role which showcases his tremendously enjoyable comedy acting ability. (JU Sung-Chul)