Another B-movie co-written by Simon Loui that offers some interesting ideas but in the end suffers from poor casting choices and from quite a bit of poorly written dialog.

The plot is basically a hostage drama with a rather ludicrous premise (the police is pursuing a weapon's smuggler who ends up as a hostage at a bar when he inadvertently crosses pathes with three jewel thieves). The movie is basically set inside the bar where the criminals are holed up, and we spend 90 minutes watching both hostages and hostage-takers argue, plead, cry and otherwise act out Loui's dialog, while a rather bored Michael Wong stands outside as the police chief bellowing out his lines in his customary random mixture of Cantonese and English.

The director tries hard to make the stale scenario exciting, and he does create a few visually interesting flourishes, such as a shootout in which the bullets travel in slomo through an aquarium before they hit Kenny Bee, with the camera then panning back from falling Kenny to a closeup of the fish dying on the ground. That's nice cinematic storytelling, but it's not enough to salvage the film.

Simon Loui has created a few quite interesting B-movies such as Paramount Motel and Nightmare in Prcinct 7. This isn't one of them. I give him an A for trying hard, though...