This film was so disappointing. It starts with a SWAT team breaking into a Church and confronting a scary monk who cunningly defends himself by exploding. The rest of the film is nothing like that. Instead, you get half-baked metaphysical mish-mosh, and handsome HK film stars walking around in Prague (Prague, fer chrissakes! What were they thinking?). The plot is all about HK's brightest scientists being knocked off as some precursor to the end of the world, but when the coming of the Antichrist is explained as the arrival of Saddam Hussein, you just want to crawl under your seat and die. All in all, it could have done with less of the thinly disguised metaphor for the Handover, and more of the exploding monks. More's the pity, Andy Lau is really good as the stoic scientist, Anthony Wong is really good as the seedy cop, and Michelle Reis is really good as Andy's girlfriend who gets hit by a bus. (She's dead before the film starts, so stop whining that I'm giving the plot away.) It's enjoyable enough while it's passing, but so utterly fails to deliver that when it's over you wonder why you bothered watching it and why they bothered making it. However, the Hong Kong Film Critics Society call it "A fantstic rendition of Hong Kong's global role and a bold reaction to the challenge of Hollywood with an original blend of mysticism and science fiction", so what the hell do I know?