What a pleasant surprise! Definitely one of the best comedies to come out of HK in a long time.

It's about a hitman played by Eric Kot who kills on demand for money. His clients are mostly rich society women who want people they don't like killed. One of his clients wants the killing filmed so that she can get the added satisfaction of watching the whole thing afterwards. His initial attempts to film it himself are abject failures, so he teams up with a hapless assistant director who dreams of being the next Martin Scorsese. Their business takes off and soon becomes more about the artistic merits of the videos produced than about the killings.

It's mainly a satire about movie making in HK, and despite the presence of Eric Kot (who I've found pretty annoying up until this movie), it's really funny in a rather macabre sort of way. Watching them discuss their next hit (i.e. murder) by talking about "lighting" and "POV shots" is funny in a rather cynical sort of way. It gets better: Eric Kot is saddled with in-laws who are both trying to hire his services, which Cheung Tat Ming is in love with a hapless Japanese Cat III starlet who is being exploited by everyone on the movie set. Add to that a rival hitman played by Vincent Kuk, and it all comes together in a hilarious final "shooting" (in both meanings of the word) that makes fun of any number of HK movie making conventions (including the obligatory pidgeons during the shootout). Highly satisfying.