lady boss, miss ho (maggie cheung), owns a successful fabric makers, but she is coming under pressure to sell up to the corrupt owners of a rival company. assisting the lady boss in her struggle is tuan ching-yun (ti lung), a former army general who has left his former life behind him, and huan feng-yao (aaron kwok), the son of tuan's best friend; a young, naive man, but a supreme martial arts talent.

this is an enjoyable enough film; part-western, in it's set up, part-shaw bros, in it's execution, but spun together with a mixture of johnnie to drama and nineties new wave. ti lung and maggie cheung never let you down and aaron kwok does a pretty good job as well. his dance training is put to good use (along with a shed load of wires) in his action sequences and he manages to squeeze in a bit of a cry, as usual.

nothing particularly new and pretty short at eighty-three minutes, but it's entertaining enough and it does have a couple of nice martial arts sequences to keep you pleasantly diverted.

yeah, it's okay...