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I had heard good things about this one and there's some funny moments here and there, but it doesn't work as a movie. Anything that shows potential gets dashed, reversed, or trivialized until the whole movie seems trivial. It almost tries not to be a movie (like a parody, yet it isn't) and the comedy isn't funny enough to make that okay. The actors use urgency and acting rushed as a response to everything and never find a rhythm.
I would say the writing/direction were the biggest problems. There's nothing too clever here, and director Joe Ma's later effort "Hidden Heroes" (2004) has some of the same defiant 'I'm just going to stick in whatever strikes me at any particular moment to shake things up' attitude and scatterbrained storytelling but was a considerable improvement with the more soothing presence of Charlene Choi vs. Miriam Yeung here who misses no chance to project callous disregard and an 'If you don't like it, you can take a hike' attitude that ceases to seem tough or cute. Daniel Wu's character just starts to seem pathetic as he continues to trail her around like a lost dog.
