| Tony Leung Chiu-Wai and Kent Cheng are two kind robbers out to retrieve a specially marked Garfield the cat doll but in the villa where they strike, they face resistance from a lonely child spirit (Jang Paak-Lam - To Catch A Thief). He needs to exact revenge on Cheap Chan (Anthony Wong), the one who killed him for the money in Garfield...
From the era when Johnnie To was not yet Johnnie To, Lucky Encounter becomes mild, light amusement at best but can't conjure up much entertainment overall. Johnnie probably doesn't look back on this and his pre-Milkyway era with pride but then again, there's worse crimes out there. Anthony Wong provides a little scene stealing performance as the drooling, upper class twit of the film. Also with Song Lei (Fruit Punch), Kingdom Yuen, John Shum, Wong Yat-Fei and in a tiny cameo towards the end, Sylvia Chang. And by the way, I highly doubt the filmmakers had permission from Paws, Inc to use their famed creation. |
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