Simon Yam plays an accountant whose life is going down the drain. He has some bad curry one night and gets a bad case of the runs (actually, the subtitles say "I had some dirty food so now I must do sh*tting all day"). While making a delivery to the bank for his boss, nature calls and he goes to the toilet. When he is taking care of business, his boss' money is robbed, and Simon becomes the prime supspect. While Simon is being interrogated, his wife goes into premature labor and dies while giving birth to his son. To add on to his misery, Simon's boss fires him and refuses to give out his severance package. Looking for justice, Simon tries to kill his boss, but the murder attempt goes awry and he ends up kidnapping the boss' spoiled daughter (Chingmy Yau) instead. While in captivity, Chingmy realizes what a jerk her father is and she and Simon decide to team up to help the poor Robin Hood-style.

Simon and Chingmy's most famous pairing was, of course, in Naked Killer. While Legendary Couple doesn't capture the sizzle of that Cat III classic, it is nonetheless a fairly entertaining action/comedy film, mostly because Simon and Chingmy's chemistry is so good together. Seperately, they really don't do much -- Chingmy comes off as annoying (even though she looks great running around in hot pants) and Simon just seems as if he's trying too hard. But when they are together, they seem to be having a good time with each other, and that feeling rubs off on the viewer.

Things aren't all rosy here, though. Frankly, I didn't really enjoy too much of the comedy in this movie -- it was much too broad for my taste -- but since I ended up liking the characters, it was hard to dismiss Legendary Couple as a whole. Suprisingly, in a film with scatalogical jokes and T&A shots, there is a good amount of genuine emotion generated during the finale, which starts off as a John Woo ripoff/parody, but may turn into a tear-jerker for some viewers.