Andy Hui and Gigi Leung star in "Marooned," a film that vacillated between a love story and a crime drama. The filmmakers couldn't make up their minds about the approach, leaving this film to meander aimlessly. The story revolves around Andy and Gigi, as Andy gets caught up with a local triad hood and some missing money.

The two leads were lackluster, but they did their best with some stale material. Andy's performance as a cop caught up in his own maze, avoiding both the crime boss and his girlfriend, was capable, but Liu Kim Wa's direction had him straddling the fence and ambivalent for much too long. A lot of indecision was created in the middle of the movie, which caused a great deal of tedium. Gigi had two identities in her role as Andy's girlfriend. First, portraying her character as an annoying schoolgirl (she tends to do this in many of her screen roles) and then secondly, as an overly serious woman scorned. She lost the maturity that she exuded in "A War Named Desire," a quality that was much needed in this role. Gigi is best when she can project that mature woman image, which lends weight to her perfomance. The script by Yeung Sin Lin was needlessly melodramatic. Films like "Marooned" suffer from the B-picture curse, that is, everyone involved seemed to be content with producing a subpar movie and didn't go that extra distance to come up with a winner, or come up with some inventive narrative for the story. Even the music was boringly lifeless.