Another Wai Si-Lee movie, and this one is just a silly and fun as previous instalments like the 7th Curse. Set in San Francisco and HK, this Wong Jing production (directed by Andrew Lau) features plenty of laughably bad English subtitles, gaping plotholes, lots of ideas plagiarized from films like Men in Black and Terminator, CGI effects ranging from impressive to silly, and a star-studded cast led by Andy Lau Tak-Wah who struggle heroically in a losing cause whenever they have to deliver English lines. Poor Shu Qi gets the worst of it, implausibly playing an FBI agent along with Roy Cheung. This does not bode well for her upcoming crossover English language movie, The Transporter.

However, poor English aside, I found the silly plot enjoyable in a campy kind of way, the movie doesn't take itself all too serious, the reunited pair of Andy and Rosamund Kwan still have lots of chemistry, and there's even sort of a swordfight (Andy Lau vs. Almen Wong's worm tentacles...).

Marginal recommendation, as long as you watch it with lowered expectations.