Visually pleasing film but like Patrick Leung's last film Somebody Up There Likes Me, good attempts means they aren't good enough. Both Wu Chien Lien and the Korean actor's assassin characters are well fleshed out, and Lau Ching Wan's ex-gangster noodle cook is really likeable. Unlike Somebody, all of the elements were coming together nicely but like Somebody all that lasted UNTIL the expected but still brutally tragic ending which somehow erased all the merits of the film for me. Even so, the film still deserve at least one viewing before you make up your mind.