| Bicyclist Cat (Maggie Cheung credited here as Margaret Cheung), generally obnoxious taxi driver Lion Head (John Shum) and cool scientist Bobo Lam (George Lam) are brought together and hunted by a duo of Japanese killers (Eddy Ko and Elvis Tsui) who thinks they have a soda can that is in fact a bomb they're the buyers of. Lion Head and Bobo also try and romance Cat. Bicker and chases ensues. David Chung (I Love Maria, Magnificent Warriors) went on to make Hong Kong comedies in a bigger fashion but here is a very sparsely done and cast comedy. Literally just a few chases and a lot of high pitched banter, there's not much script taking up the screentime and being sporadically lively only saves the moments where that occurs. It's easy though to appreciate the light tone that in this case means there's no feeling of danger present at all (it was a Christmas release after all). Digestible isn't such a bad thing but there's only minor meat to chew. Elvis Tsui has a character design not so much molded out of the Japanese killer one but the Michael Jackson/synth pop one. Lau Kong, Liu Kai-Chi and Paul Chun also appear. Minor appearances come from Wu Ma, Dennis Chan, Lowell Lo and Hui Siu-Hung. |
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