Another typical UFO product: designed to appeal to sophisticatedurban professionals. Nicely made, but it tries to be too smart: too cleverly mapped out. There's no magic (in a movie ostensibly about religion, magic, fakery, credulity, and the ways these are exploited in a pressure-filled fin-de-siecle Hong Kong). It's not stirring, or affecting, or really funny (as Mack the Knife managed to be, intermittently): just sort of admirable. Good performances by Tony Leung and Jordan Chan, who once again gets to show of his physical screen magnetism. But things just don't light up.