a property developer, professor mok (sek sau), wants to buy some valuable land from lillian, whos daughter has cancer. mok promises to deliver a miracle cure, if she agrees to sell, and promptly dispatches his team of twins (three pairs of actual twins!) to steal it from uncle luk (sammo hung) and hay (w jingu). in order to get back the miracle cure, uncle luk persuades chan chung (yuen wah) to reassemble his crack team of twins; made up of another trio of twins (two actal pairs and 'the twins').

this is dumb. this is silly. this is fluff.

yet, there's something strangely intoxicating about it and, i must admit, i found myself enjoying it. yep, the story is pretty crappy, it sometimes feels like a tv pilot and some bits are just stupid, by not taking itself very seriously, it's kind of gets away with it. the beginning of the film doesn't promise much which, considering it involves sammo and wu jing first action sequence, may seem a little worrying. still, as the plot sets itself in motion and charlene and gillian enter the picture, it slowly sucked me in. by the end, i was thoroughly enjoying myself.

it's a brainless bit of action and i even found myself chuckling at a couple of scenes; mainly at the scene with the laser alarm sensors. also, after some of the worst cgi i've seen for a while in the first scene, the action sequences are, depite the fact that they're loaded with some pretty terrible wire work, quite good fun. wu jing looks pretty good and is starting to show more personality to go alongside his undoubtable martial arts talents.

sammo and yueh wah contribute and it was fun to see sammo against yuen and yuen against yuen! sure, it's far from their best work; the way i see it, neither of them owe us anything, having contributed so much in their careers, it's just good to still see them on screen. the twins are uniformly cute throughout and are very watchable, whilst the real sets of twins also do their fair share.

so, if you're a fan of mindless fluff and want a hit of silly, then you can do a lot worse that this. i (ashamedly) look forward to the sequel...