Maybe you still have the memory that Willson YIP Wai-shun has done a quality movie last year -- 'Bio-Zombie'. This time he directs a crime and police movie 'Bullets Over Summer'. Despite the relative small number of screens for showing, the casting is quite strong as you can find Francis NG Chun-yu and Daniel KOO Tin-lok. Maybe this is the summer hope for the BIG-Mandarin Circuit. Let's see how it has done.

Judging from the movie title, probably you can consider it as a crime story. Officer Brian (Daniel KOO Tin-lok) and Officer Mike (Francis NG Chun-yue), who has been paired for years, are investigating the case of a big robber Dragon. Their characters are totally different -- Brian behaves like a big kid while Mike seems to be crazy. In this action, they finally make use of Pappa (Helena LAW Lan)'s home for observation. With the days going on, they live like a family. In between, Brian was fallen in love to Yen (MOK Pui-lam), under-cover agent SHEK Sau (LAI Yiu-cheung)'s sister. At the same time, Mike seems to be in love with laundary lady Jennifer (LAM Mei-jing). Jennifer is pregnant while her men ran away. While Brian and Mike are enjoying their love, the thunderstorm is coming......

By judging from the title, maybe you will expect lots of actions and gun-fighting scenes. However, it seems that Willson YIP puts more concern on the descriptions of characters and their relationship with other guys. For gun fightings and action scenes, there are several gun fightings which are well done. At least, you won't think it's a typical production.

For the part about relationships, the descriptions are detailed while the dialogues are well written. They put up the pairs with almost contradicting attributes. This is not a new thing. However, they put up the character Helena LAW Lan in the movie as an alone old guy who has some mental problems. She wrongly recognize Brian and Mike as her sons Brian and Ka-leung. This makes the whole relationship interesting and funny.

Some of the plots are good in decide, the love for Brian and Mike to Yen and Jennifer respectively are natural and real. It hasn't put lots of descriptions on the relationship but the scenes taken are powerful. That's why what you see they have an reunion dinner, you find that they look like a real family.

Another interesting thing is about the interaction between the robbers and the cops. They have made up an interesting situation for presenting the case which make you feel fresh. I don't want to spoil the plot, but I'm sure that it is a bit out of your imagination.

In terms of performance, I consider the thress characters -- Francis NG Chun-yu, Daniel KOO Tin-lok and Helena LAW Lan, especially Helena LAW Lan. This time Helena LAW acted as a crazy old guy. She has lots of opportunity to act. Some of them like mis-recognizing are fun. However, you can also see her dark side at some scenes. The plot has the tension to make Helena to be important and dimensional.

For Francis NG Chun-yu, his character in 'Bullets Over Summer' looks like his direction '9413', being an abnormal cop with his personal problems. His acting is also good and you can see his acting from his various behavious. For Daniel KOO, I think this time he performs more natural.

In short, you may not find lots of bullets in 'Bullets Over Summer', you still enjoy the movie as you can find a well-written story about the relationships between the cops and a old lady and the love of these two cops. The whole movie is entertaining. If you look for actions and gun shootings, there are some quality scenes, but I'm sure you can get more from the movie.