8/10
Entertaining. Great action but not enough of it.
21 February 2013
I enjoyed this movie a lot more than the other reviewers here. But then I'm a big Yuen Biao fan and he's pretty entertaining in this one. He plays an easygoing, flirtatious cop to an extent that I haven't seen him do too often. I really don't think there is a role that he can't play well. Cynthia Khan is excellent and lovely and I agree that she should have been given more to do. She's more or less his sidekick. But their chemistry is great, with touches of sarcastic humor, and that could have been taken a little further. Monsour Del Rosario is also very good as the head cop and has some sweet martial arts moves of his own.

I agree with the other reviews that there could have been a lot more fighting given the level of talent assembled. The real fighting is focused in the final scene, which is pretty extensive and brutal. There were certain things I just found flat out funny, like the ridiculously large "Hans and Franz" boys. If you're a fan of any of the main actors, you'll enjoy this movie as they all do a great job. The editor must have fallen asleep though because there's an ambulance scene that appears twice, each time different, which means they re-shot it and kept both shoots in. Oops!
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