| The cover of two guys on a beach with a bikini-clad girl is very misleading. The chick only shows up for five minutes and she is not in a bikini. In fact, there is not one beach scene in the whole movie. The closest is a sauna room where they hide out from gangsters. When they are found, a wacky sauna chase ensues that is reminiscent of other sauna chases made famous in the following Jackie Chan films: "Thunderbolt," "Rush Hour 2" and probably "The Accidental Spy."
The plot does have two guys picking up a briefcase filled with a fancy self-contained computer that is capable of world domination or something to that effect. Figuring out how to break into the suitcase is how they meet the chick because all pretty girls have a hidden talent in the movies that is never immediately obvious. There is a loan shark collecting payment on the guy from "My Sassy Girl" and they hate each other in the "Another 48 Hrs" way. They come upon a briefcase held by a dead foreigner; afterwards neither wants to part with it before they know how much they can pawn it for. So it is a series of escapes, deaths and wondering where else they can hide from the real bad guys. This movie is sort of fun, but really rambles on from one scene to another in the "Barbershop" sort of way with the only focal point being the briefcase and the mutual hate between the two main guys. |
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