Whoever wrote the casting thing on this site was lied to.
Gong Li was not in this movie. It was what's her face, that Taiwanese pop star, Fong Ji Wei or whatever her name was. Gong Li has nothing to do with this movie.
From beginning to end this movie had a real low-budget feeling to it. Even its elaborate action scenes still felt incredibly ghetto, could be the poor VHS quality, or could be because Wong "I Suck At Making Movies" Jing. What's his obsession with SWAT homages? In City Hunter we get the "Thunder Team" (a Taiwanese SWAT equivalent) breaking into the cruise ship and shot the terrorists dead, right then it stopped being a movie and for five minutes it was a Taiwanese public announcement about their brave police units. Same thing here, during the climax, the Hong Kong swat team transports themselves via a spacetime wormhole (thank you Kip Thorne) and kills those evil Shanghaiese mobsters.

Chow does his best to make it a funny movie and he succeeds, succeeds more than poor Jackie in City Hunter.

But bottomline is, that chick is not Gong Li.