yeung's (karena lam) brother was kidnapped and killed, when an accident during the police investigation. three years later, when she discovers that there may be a hope for her cancer-stricken husband, she decides that she is going to kidnap the son of a wealthy business man in order to fund the treatment. this brings her up against madam ho (rene liu), the officer who was in charge of her brother's case...

having enjoyed rene liu's last couple of films, and wanting to fill that last space in a buyoyo.com order, i decided to pick this up, even though it hadn't been generating particularly good reviews. i was to discover that these reviews should have been heeded...

the film has a relatively good narrative arc, with some clever devices and twists which, if only they'd had a decent script alongside them and, maybe, the film had been better cast, could've resulted in this being a pretty decent thriller. as it was, the script (and dreadful subtitles on the dvd) was pretty dire and really made things difficult for rene and karena: i don't really want to lay any blame at their feet, but they just weren't suited to their characters at all.

pretty bad...