Lovers Marco and Yen (Dior Cheng, Sammi Cheng) take a Christmas vacation to Japan to revive their romance, with unexpected results: Marco finds himself falling for Gobby Li (Chingmy Yau), a famous but lonely fashion model, and Yen, now alone and abandoned, calls it splitsville without so much as a note. Their pals (one a prospective UCLA basketball player!) also look like they're on the verge of a break-up, but their plight is so boring that selective attention blots it out of our memory. The movie drifts along in a jazzy post-Chungking Express mode, but really takes a nose-dive when Gobby reveals she has brain cancer (the HK scriptwriter's disease of choice) and only a few months to live. Happily, it skips several months and returns to the main romance, where Marco and Yen seem wiser and happier.

(2.5/4)



[Reviewed by Steve Spinali]