One of the most fun-filled movies I've seen in a long time coming out of HK, recalling the golden age of Jackie Chan, updated for Y2K.

Lots of fun action scenes with a pretty crappy climax (a boat chase? come on.) a lot of which reminded me of Jackie Chan's stuff (Tony Leung fighting with the umbrella at the beginning, etc) But this film as a pretty incongruous soundtrack. Latin-accented house music while everybody's kung-fu fighting in Tokyo?? Where'd that come from? Is Lou Bega suddenly doing HK movie soundtracks now??

Tony Leung seemed to have fun in this one as the prissy secret agent / private investigator who'd rather comb his hair than fight with the Yakuza goons, drawing inspiration from everything including Inspector Gadget, Maxwell Smart, Charlie's Angels and of course, Jackie Chan. Kelly Lam is supposedly one of the most beautiful HK actresses nowadays, but something about her didn't really click with me. I enjoyed the cute Japanese "Angels" that Tony employed a lot more. Ekin Cheung lays the smackdown as quite possibly the world's first and only martial arts interior decorator, and the Japanese dude who plays the Yakuza boss No is menacing enough, but doesn't really do anything about it except smoke and make really wheezy threats.

And you gotta love that fat Yakuza henchman that Tony zaps (twice!) with his stun gun.