Reviewed by: MrBooth Date: 10/27/2005 Summary: 3/10 - don't bother Sammo is an underpaid and underappreciated employee who decides to kidnap his boss for a ransom (only fair), but accidentally kidnaps the boss's stepdaughter (Joey Wang) instead. Things get complicated when Kenny Bee kidnaps Joey from Sammo (whose character is rather clumsy and unfortunate), resulting in an unusual sort of kidnapping triangle. A somewhat creative idea for a story is squandered by a script that rarely meets an acceptable minimum of intelligence or coherency, and creates surprisingly few situations that are actually interesting or amusing. I'm not one of those people that believes a good film must be about good people, but TO ERR IS HUMANE offers characters who are neither good nor likeably flawed, or otherwise interesting enough to care much about how their situation pans out. Although there are occasional moments that rise above the turgidity, the film has inadequate levels of anything that might justify sitting through 90 minutes of it - comedy, drama, action... all flops. Actually there's one thing that kept it from being switched off half way I guess, which is that Sammo Hung is always watchable even in a turkey like this. Unless you're a devoted Sammo completist (not a bad thing to be), I wouldn't bother with this film though. Reviewer Score: 3

Reviewed by: Inner Strength Date: 04/06/2003 2/5

Reviewed by: STSH Date: 03/22/2003 Summary: Awful It's not that Samo is playing a non-action role (see my review of Eight Taels Of Gold). This movie is just plain dumb. The plot has a serious go at getting in some level of complexity. But the acting lets everyone down, as does the detail of the script. I admit that I didn't watch the whole film. I tuned out after half an hour, as boredom turned to active annoyance, while Kenny's character was playing a dumb alternate character trying to convince hostage Joey to cooperate. So it might have improved, as mpongpun hints. A sad waste of a lot of great talent. Reviewer Score: 1

Reviewed by: mpongpun Date: 01/03/2003 Sammo plays some low level employee named Ting Siu Chung who works at jewelry shop. He’s underpaid and underappreciated but still loyal to the company. When some robbers jack him for the company’s payout for a diamond deal, Ting is suspected of colluding with the robbers. Ting is furious. His life was on the line and he had been loyal to the company for all those years and now his bosses are suspecting him of stealing? Forget loyalty. Ting decides to get even with the company by kidnapping his boss, Ms. Chou (Leung Fan), and holding her for ransom. Instead of kidnapping Ms. Chou, he mistakenly kidnaps her step daughter, Jo (Joey Wang). Meanwhile, another low level employee of the jewelry company, Biu (Kenny Bee), has been watching Ting’s every move and decides to tail him. While Ting is out of his apartment, Biu kidnaps Jo from Ting and attempts to blackmail Ting into giving him some of the ransom money for Jo by going public with some evidence he has on Ting. The two then get a few a chances at getting the ransom money from Jo’s father, but the outcome ends in failure. When they do manage to get the money in the end, it gets taken away from them by some robbers (hilarious event at the bank). In the end, Biu and Ting, get nada for all their exploits but when they come back to work, they do get a little consolation prize. I kind of liked this movie and I found that for a kidnapping flick, this one is pretty low drama. Usually kidnapping flicks are intense and the cops are hotheads and the kidnap victim is stressed out. In this flick, everything is the opposite. Also, if you are looking for a lot of fights, forget about this flick. There is barely any, and I guess that’s why nobody really talks of this flick.