In fact, about two seconds of "The Thomas Crown Affair" is actually shown in this movie. This movie is about as similar to 1968's "The Thomas Crown Affair" as 1999's remake of the same movie (starring Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo). Anyway, if you're looking for an original plot, this movie is not for you. However, if you're looking for a really interesting take on the Hollywood classic, check this movie out.

Michelle Yeoh (previously named Michelle Khan) stars as the bored but wealthy businessperson who plots an incredible robbery simply to get a thrill. You may have seen Michelle in action movies such as Jackie Chan's "Super Cop" and Jet Li's "Tai Chi Master."

Michelle doesn't use her martial arts talents in this film, but she's great nevertheless, cast as a very smart, sophisticated woman. The robbery scene is particularly intriguing and the movie has a nice ending. This flick is well worth checking out, especially since the price of this DVD is reasonable.

This movie is as funny as "Rumble in the Bronx" and somehow doesn't look quite as dated despite being two year older. This movie is very stereotypical of American culture, but I think that adds to the humor. Upon arriving in LA, Jet is immediately robbed by a bunch of Hispanics. What happens next is a car chase -- only Jet is on foot!

In this film, Jet looks very young. I'd say he looks 16 or so. His unsupposing appearance adds to the dramatic effect when he beats people up. The finale is pretty spectacular, taking place on the top of a downtown LA skyscraper.

Judging by the unique visual effects and cinematography, it is obvious this is a Tsui Hark film. Its interesting to see his artistic elements melded into what would have otherwise been a regular action movie.

I thought American Crystal Kwok was excellent as Jet's co-star and love interest. Overall, an entertaining film with some great fight scenes and quality acting. Recommended, especially if you want to see Jet in a film which takes place in a modern setting.

Being an eighteen-year-old Mainland Chinese film, the picture quality isn't as quite as good as most Hong Kong films of the same age. There's nothing that can be done about that. However, the picture is very acceptable and the English subtitles are excellent.

The action is spectacular and the story is good for a kung fu movie. I thought Jet's acting was wonderful. Had I not known before watching this movie, I never would have guessed this was his first major role in a film.

Many of the scenes of this movie were filmed in the actual Shao Lin temple. However, there are a few sequences that were obviously filmed on a sound stage with paintings depicting mountains used as a backdrop.

One of the cool things about this DVD is a very rare supplemental documentary about Jet Li. It has footage of Jet as a young boy, a teenager, a young man and also shows Jet's family. I've never seen any thing like this before. After Jet became a star, he also became extremely private.

Constructed by the Japanese Self Defense Force to rid Japan of Godzilla, Mechagodzilla is a bio-mechanical weapon constructed in part by using some of the monster's own skeleton as a blueprint. Mechagodzilla does not fly this time around, and is instead transported by two jets called the Shirasagi.

Fast-paced kinetic fight scenes clearly influenced by contemporary Japanese anime and wrestling like the WWF dominate this Godzilla film. If you liked the last Godzilla film, "GMK", you should like "GXMG". The Godzilla suit has been remade and returns to a more traditional look with pupils in his eyes. Look out for beautiful Japanese swimsuit model Yumiko Shaku as the Mechagodzilla pilot, and for the cameo of popular baseball player, Hideki "Godzilla" Matsui of New York Yankees fame.

If you're a fan of Takashi Miike, you know what to expect: A ridiculous plot with crazy violence, sex, and drugs, but also a frantic and unique visual style that somehow transcends the pulpy story.

If you've never seen a Miike film, and are easily offended by gratuitous paganism, this is probably not a movie you'll enjoy. However, should you enjoy celluloid insanity and tongue-in-cheek weirdness, you'll probably want to watch this orgy of over-the-top flamboyancy.

The story basically goes like this...these two cops never give anyone a ticket, and the restaurant-changing cop usually just pulls women over to hit on them awkwardly. But one time they pull a man over for speeding. Once he explains that he's a repo man, they let him go, and ask how they can get into the car repo-ing business as well!? Soon enough they're spending their spare time repo-ing cars for this guy, who seems to just kind of pick out cars at random that he wants them to repo. They don't seem to have any idea of or care about who they're actually working for; and, being cops, they don't find any of this suspicious at all. Needless to say, it turns out that they're just stealing cars "unknowingly", and then they have to try to bust the car-theft ring-leader who "tricked" them into being retarded part-time car-thieving dumb-ass cops in the first place.

Along the way, there are a lot of car chases, and seemingly stream-of-consciousness dialog performed by the star/writer/director/stunt driver/restaurant-changer. The former are surprisingly enjoyable if silly; the latter we could have done without. But hey, as long as we get our fill of car chases, who gives a damn about the laughably irrational characters or the confusingly half-baked plot, right? Right? Ugh...

The film isn't terrific or bad, it kind of perpetuates itself as much by momentum as anything else. The acting is very good overall, and the subject matter (a dying man) is hard not to empathize with.

But actor Stephane Rousseau's emotionless performance as the dying man's son seemed out of place amid this otherwise very impressive cast. All the other actors really make their characters shine with personality and uniqueness, despite the fact that we only get to know them through short scenes mostly in a hospital room. Stephane Rousseau on the other hand has plenty of more complex scenes and the space to really give his character more of an arc, yet we didn't feel that he accomplished what he could have with this role. His under-acting was really the only standout low point in the film for us.

So don't come to the film looking for some big transformation on anyone's part. And certainly don't come to the film if you don't want to see a physically unappealing, dirty old man reminiscing endlessly about his past sexual exploits. This film works best, we suppose, as a simple showcase of normal, flawed people as they accompany a normal, flawed friend through the end of his life. So if you're big on sitting back and just observing people being people, you could do much worse.