| Overview: | The story is full of wildly implausible twists, but more than once we found ourselves laughing at the sheer audacity of the filmmakers. So much rude energy is on display that 24 frames per second are not enough to contain it. Instead, it squirts out of the screen and leaves a trail of bloody pulp on your carpet.
Sadly, director Veronica Chan Jing Yee never made another film, but here she rips up the frame - not to be disrespectful, but the camera has attention deficit disorder - and moves things along at a frenetic pace, like the proverbial roller coaster, only unencumbered by gravity.
Good performances are turned in by Andy Lau (displaying a sleepy charm), Anita Yuen (not so sweet here, and all the better for it), Christine Ng Wing Mei (as an extremely calculating manager for highly-paid assassins), Mark Cheng Ho Nam (as her outrageously deadly professional partner), and Waise Lee Chi-Hung (as a cop who grudgingly grows to admire two of the assassins).
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