When high-ranking PRC official orchestrates the heist of adinosaur skull for an overseas buyer, he assigns an incompetent secret agent Ling Ling Chai (007 in Chinese -- Stephen Chieu) to investigate; he's a master with knives who runs a seedy pork stand in Beijing. (At HQ, they have the usual parade of items in research. (My favorite was the solar-powered flashlight, which only runs in full daylight.). Ling's contact is Siu Kam (ubiquitous Anita Yuen), who's been assigned to kill him, thus terminally thwarting the investigation; but of course, they fall in love. The laffs percolate just under the Naked Gun standard, with the two stars pretty much carrying the show.

(3/4)



[Reviewed by Steve Spinali]