The more movies that Andrew Lau directs, the more we see how his strength has become his weakness. Maybe Lau is possibly burnt out. The characters didn't live in the world, they were wall flowers and comic book stereotypes. The actors were wasted in this effort, especially Simon Yam. I was totally surprised to see that Manfred Wong wrote this piece of tripe. You really didn't care about any of the characters in this story about a spoiled, rich kid who finds a heart. Derek Yee's superior "Full Throttle" is miles ahead of "The Legend of Speed."

Once again Ekin Cheng gets to strut around with the same demeanor demonstrated in his other films. It may take some time before he learns the craft of acting, but for now we will have to content ourselves with his cardboard cutout performances. When he's sad, he looks down and then stares away. The actor Ekin would make a good poker player. The highlight of the film was Blackie Ko as Ekin's father.

The big disappointment is in the racing. No tension. No sense of speed. Too many poor and cheap looking computer graphic effects. My playstation games have a better sense of speed. The worse offense was the static camera work. No car mounted cameras or varying car chasis shots, only shot - reverse shot views of the cars and the drivers. Computer generated light trails to indicate speed were added. The use of a CG appeared too clinical as in a car commercial. I guess Lau hasn't seen movies like "Thunderbolt" or "Bullitt" or even the previous "Full Throttle" for examples of excitement in car/motorcycle races and chases. This was surprising in light of the opening title sequence, which had more feel of movement than the racing. This was a film where there was no need to use CG at all. Lau's use of CG only makes the film less credible and further cheapens the film.