I really enjoyed the first movie, I thought the second one wasn't bad either, so I don't know why I waited so many years to finally watch the last instalment which once again reunites Andy Lau Tak-Wah and Wu Chien Lien.
It becomes immediately apparent that the movie is a sequel in title only - this story is set in the late thirties with Andy playing a pilot in Chiang Kai Shek's army fighting the Japanese invasion forces. He gets shot and is forced to land in some remote Chinese village where he is nursed back to health by Wu Chien Lien who plays a simple yet charming (and obviously gorgeous) village girl. All of this is filmed in cinemascope with lots of sunsets, corn fields and other gorgeous countryside vistas, while the soundtrack provides an abundance of strings at full blast. There's hardly any dialog (or anything happening, for that matter) - instead, we get Kodak moments, postcards from Lover's Lane (look, here we are dancing on the wing of the aircraft amidst the cornfields at sunset). What could possibly make this more romantic, you ask? Why yes, of course there are the song interludes - we have two here, one sung by Andy and one by WCL.

The movie gets even worse when Andy goes back to town and his village girl decides to follow (and within seconds in transformed from illiterate peasant to a stunning-looking sophisticated lady wearing make-up and the latest fashion...). Well, I kept telling myself, at least one of them gets killed in the end, so I kept watching, but the movie let me down even in that respect...

This movie is contrived, manipulative and lacks any true emotion. Only recommended to ogle at the very photogenic leads.