| Plot: Plane (Ekin Cheng) is a troubled cop whose haunted by his past, his girlfriend and fellow officer Carrie (Gigi Leung) was killed viciously by a psychotic hitman Angel (Alex Fong), when attempting to protect a witness. The hitman was hired by the low-life gangster - Golden Tooth.
One year after the death of Carrie, Plane is still a wreck constantly brawling, never keeping a partner for more than a day or two, until he is teamed up with Turkey (Jordan Chan).
Turkey is a young, immature and head over heels for female pop princess - Tinny (Vivian Hsu). He's also known as the son of Bond Chu (Lau Kar-Ying) aka The Jade Dragon, one of Chinese top policemen, well until he went crazy. Now he spends his days dressed in various disguises (mostly in a James Bond Tuxedo) and making some very wacky gadgets - Bulletproof Umbrellas, Mobile Phone flip-flops and tracking shoes!
Plane & Turkey finds themselves having to protect the rising pop star from Angel, who's been hired by Golden Tooth once again. Both men choose to protect Tinny and her computer expert friend - Mandy. Mandy has a shocking resemblance of the late Carrie and Plane can't help but fall for her.
Although with them constantly having to dodge assassination attempts from Angel, can they protect the ones they love this time around?
Review: Wong Jing delivers a comical slice of cheese, which isn't really surprising since he did write and direct this movie. When first watching this movie - around a year ago - I thought it wasn't that bad, found some of it rather funny. This time around the cheesy effect (both visual and sound) did spoil it a little bit. I was impressed at first with some of the violence and the squirting blood, cause they are always cool. Although some shots are just bad, mainly this one shot of some one being stabbed, but from the angle its shot at, it shows a clear gap between knife and guy, but that's the only shot that stands out.
For Comedy, some of it works, for exam when Plane fires the gun at the bullet-proof umbrella but manages to fire through it is great, I just love everyone’s reactions when they hear Bond Chu scream. Tinny & Turkey trying out the smoke bomb condom. There is also the funny situation where Turkey decides to redecorate Planes room, removing all the posters of Carrie and replacing them with Movie posters such as; Erotic Chinese Story 1 & 2, Banquet and Happy Together (Wong Kar-Wai’s film based on the relationship of a gay couple), Plane hates the posters and goes to tear them down, Turkey grabs him attempting to hold him back, both on them fall over onto each other and Plane’s mother walks, sees them lying on top of each other and then notices the poster ‘Happy Together’!? I’m sure you can guess the rest from here.
Now some of the comedy isn’t as good such as the strange Police Academy spoofs with Jordan Chan attempting to be the man of a thousand sounds, the first couple of times that he does it a just silly, but towards the end, the last trick he done imitating the sound of a car, was actually quite amusing. There is also a Dr. No/James Bond spoof with ‘Bond Chu’ meeting up with ‘Lady Crab’, it’s amusing, but a little cheesy.
I happened to quite like the romantic storyline between Ekin Cheng & Gigi Leung, the scene where he’s chasing after her through the mall (which I think is the same mall Wilson Yip shot ‘Bio-Zombie’) and finds, he’s starring at her, she’s starring back. The only thing between them is the window, well on Ekin’s side it is. On Gigi’s side it’s actually a mirror and she’s just looking into it smiling, well I liked it.
Guest appearances? Well Jackie Chan stuntman/bodyguard Bill Tuan makes an appearance at the start of the movie as well as Lee Sui-Kei as Dirty Fook. Spencer Lam makes an appearance as a member of the bomb squad. Michael Chan plays the role of Turkey & Planes boss, who loves to be beaten up, he’s been beaten up all his life and he just feels weird when he isn’t being beaten, yes I know – kinky old man. Meg Lam also makes a couple of appearances as Ekin Cheng’s mother.
Final thoughts, decent film, yet it is really quite cheesy. Enjoy! |