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Rating, Out Of 5 Stars
I had recently rented this movie and I didn't go into it with high hopes (I find that everytime I do, I end up feeling very disappointed by the time the film is over). So when I popped this movie into my player, I was expecting a total mess; but amazingly enough this film didn't truly disappoint me. Given that it was on a low-budget, Philip Ko made the most of what he had and put it to good use.

The plot revolves around Mimi (Melanie Marquez), an ex-model turned thief who is running with a dangerous crowd of smugglers. After stealing an antique relic from a Buddhist temple, Mimi goes on the run after double crossing her employers. Enter Siu Ching (Cynthia Khan), a Hong Kong Interpol agent who has been ordered by her superiors to find the relic and bring it back, but she won't be going on this mission alone: a Beijing Military official named Wong Li has been asked to assist her in finding the relic as well. The task won't be easy as they are constantly pitted against a various assortment of bad guys who will stop at nothing to retrieve the relic from Mimi who has intentions of selling it herself.

The pros: this is a Cynthia Khan movie so she's given plenty of time to shine in the film. The locations for the movie were excellent and they didn't focus too much on the plot, just the action scenes. The gunfights in this film were extraordinary and the fight scenes were so-so.

Now for the cons: Sharon Yeung is dropped in and taken out of the story a few times and that was kind of disappointing to me...but she did get to kick some bad guys around here and there. The fight scenes could've done without the wire-work...it was unnecessary and it made the characters seem a little too superhuman. Ronnie Rickets plays a cab driver named Harry, who we know almost nothing about except that he likes to box in underground matches and he can handle himself really well with a machine gun or assault rifle. I'm guessing his character must've been a soldier or something to have those skills...he's Cynthia Khan's partner in the movie and though they don't get along well at first, but later begin to show a good deal of comradery towards one another. Also, the ending of the movie kind of threw me for a loop, but I won't say what happens...they kinda just threw an ending at me that I wasn't really expecting.

Overall, the movie was pretty good and decent for a Phillip Ko actioner. Clearly the cast in this film make the most of what they had to work with...rent it if you want to have something to watch on a Saturday night or buy it if you're a major Cynthia Khan and Sharon Yeung fan.

-SN28148 (see my profile)

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