Polis Evo is a Malaysian buddy cop action comedy film series, created by Joel Soh (who served as producer), Kyle Goonting and Anwari Ashraf, who previously became an Astro Scholarship Students.

The film series are produced and distributed by Astro Shaw and features Shaheizy Sam as Khairul/Inspector Khai and Zizan Razak as Hassani/Inspector Sani.

Its sequel, Polis Evo 2 (2018) were subjected with controversy when it was alleged to contain scenes offensive to Islam led to boycott movement by Dr Riduan Md Nor, PAS Committee head.

Polis Evo is the number one franchise series in Malaysia of all time, having grossed over RM95.16 million worldwide after the third film was released on 25 May 2023.

[3] The prequel began its principal photography in Terengganu and Kuala Lumpur around September 2014 with Shaheizy Sam and Zizan Razak were chosen to play buddy cop duo to balance out action and comedy.

[13] For the final and third film, Syafiq Yusof who just ending the principal photography of Abang Long Fadil 3; appointed as director in September 2019 replacing Joel Soh and Andre Chiew who worked as producer together.

[14] Zizan and Sam reprise their roles once again for the trilogy[15] with Sharnaaz Ahmad entered the franchise by casting through Joel himself instead of Aslam Yusoff.

Three years after the events of the first film, Inspector Sani and Khai are now involved in an espionage mission on a remote island on the east coast.

The atmosphere turned cloudy when a group of terrorists led by Hafsyam Jauhari attacked and captured the Cherong Island, Pahang.

Khai managed to find a spy policeman from Indonesia and 4 members of the special forces sent by the Malaysian government.

These seven together took on the most bitter challenge in their career as police to defeat Hafsyam Jauhari and his group and rescue more than 200 hostages on the island.

While preparing for Sani's wedding, Reza carried out a bomb attack in Penang which caused a policeman and dozens of civilians to be killed in the crash.

Gayatri Su-Lin Pillai (Tayangan Unggul) and Imyllia Roslan (Astro Shaw) served as co-producers for respective company.

After Najwa ends her tenure in Astro Shaw, executive producers took over by Dato' Khairul Anwar Salleh, Henry Tan, Agnes Rozario and Christinne Lim for second film.

[23][24] Joel Soh, Kyle Goonting and Anwari Ashraf Hashim has contributed by written the script for all three films.

[16] Joel also chose Farali Khan as originally, the sniper woman was supposed to be in second film, only to be removed from the script.

First film entering their principal photography in September 2014 in Terengganu as the main context and some areas in Kuala Lumpur, months before Harun Salim Bachik passed away in March 2015.