The first ten minutes of the movie introduce Leung's character but just as things start to happen the story changes to a flashback. The film instead concentrates on a completely different story about two triad members, Gigi and Fred, who are turned against each other by their boss. I found this method of switching between plots to be quite an interesting change from the usual linear narrative style employed in most Hong Kong films. This second story also provides the most thrilling moments in the film as Gigi and Fred engage in a running gun battle through crowded streets. The mayhem gets even worse when the police become involved. It is during the afore mentioned gun battle that the two stories collide with catastrophic results for Lau Yi Lo illustrating how one person's life can suddenly be destroyed by the unwitting actions of others.

Once all this excitement is passed however, the film suddenly loses pace and becomes more of the romantic comedy promised by the title. The story is then transferred to ancient China ( don't ask how, you just have to see it) where all of the main characters have travelled back in time. Tony Leung meets the suicide girl again and the romance becomes the main focus.

There are some comic moments in the last half hour, specifically when all concerned realise that the only way they can get back to the future is to kill themselves at the same time, but these fail to lift the film enough.

This is definitely a film of two halves with the first completely overshadowing the second. Sadly a promising start fails to develop into anything more than a run of the mill romantic comedy.