This one had some phat editing, some phatter action sequences, a title that I didn't think made a whole bunch of sense, and a horribly convoluted plot, to put it lightly. But screw all that.

This was one of the most decent action movies to come out of HK in a couple years. Better than Tokyo Raiders, but come to think about it, that doesn't say much :P

As far as I can tell, Nicholas Tse is a street punk bartender who has a one night stand with a lesbian cop, and gets her pregnant. So he decides to become a bodyguard to raise money for the child. Meanwhile, Wu Bai is a former paramilitary agent guy who's being hunted down by his former team (their skills are demonstrated in an impressive but pretty innocuous armed robbery sequence near the beginning)

The two cross paths during an assassination of Wu's fiancee's father (who Tse is supposed to protect), and sure enough they later team up to take out Wu's former teammates in some insane action sequences. The last of which takes place in an airport swarming with SDU's and the evil paramilitary squad after both of them, and the two girls.

And the lesbian cop chick kicks a bad guy's ass like 10 seconds after having a child, and Nicholas Tse kicks a grenade right into a bad guy's face, which explodes and disintegrates the bad guy, but doesn't leave Tse with so much as a scratch when he's a mere 5 feet away. That just didn't click with me. You'd think she'd be a little exhausted and he'd be seriously injured, but hey. This is an HK movie, so everybody's a little superhuman.

Props to the much-talked-about rappelling gunfight sequence, where it almost looks like they just dropped the camera off the side of the building to let it follow Wu Bai sliding down the ropes, all the while taking out a whole bunch of enemy snipers.

But, all the cool action sequences and camera tricks in the world won't save the confusing plot, and there's a ton of extraneous characters one needs to keep track of.

But still, a pretty damn decent piece of work in an HK film industry which doesn't put out many all out John Woo style bullet-ballets anymore. Props to Tsui Hark.