Stylish, the actor Peng Yuyan is very handsome and fluid. He has a v beautiful body and moves very well on the chase, running away scenes on roof tops. The movie is very aesthetic, some dialogues are humorous and curt, however this type of charm even though dispersed through out the movie, does not make the movie a strong story telling vehicle.
Near the end, it is dragging. The fight scene in the stone court yard is especially unbelievable, waste of time. You point the gun and I point gun but no one shoots, but walks around in circles. This standard face off scene has been used so much, especially in kung fu movies, its not doing much.
The two main women characters are both pretty eye candies, one clean and undercover agent, a fashion stylist. The other mistress of the big boss, sexy also undercover of a sort.
No true sexy scene nor romance, the story is a running list of actions beautiful shots. And some cheeky references to the buttock, not sexy nor funny nor anything. Its used as a gimmick to sexiness, or erotic themes. But insufficient.
Peng Yuyan with the beautiful body is shown nude running in a sheer bathrobe on roof top. Once again, very nice images. If you want to sell this, need more closeups and better pretext, let us see w more muscles, sweat, etc.
His facial acting is a mix of american expressions w chinese verbal language, awkward to negotiate. Not v smooth as one character, he was not convincing as a doctor - doctors are not timid and shy type, they work on the body - nor as a spy. V strange, a movie w such a gd looking actor, how could it have been more convincing? Is there something to do w the script? could the story be tweaked more to make it fit the foreign brought up young man who could avenge his shi-fu? (master/father) Script has some problems.
Anyway, this movie to me, is about aesthetics and it has achieve this.
Still the movie is very attractive, I had wanted to see a Jiang Wen movie, so this one is like as i described.
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