Twins Mission

Popcorn & Coke overdose for the Lunar New Year

Plot

Upon travelling to Hong Kong with the Heavenly Beads, Sammo Hung and Wu Jing gets intercepted by three pairs of twins who kick ass. To get them back, Hung summons Yuen Wah, who summons Gillian Chung and Charlene Choi (two names who form the HK Cantopop Group Twins) and another two pairs of twins to kick their asses back.

What Do I Think?

There are popcorn movies, decent meal movies and even some fine dining movies. To usher in the lunar new year, Hong Kong wastes no time in making a popcorn popcorn movie for the audience to spend their red packet fortunes. Is it any good? Who cares? The cinema halls would be packed anyway.

This is action choreographer Kong To-Hoi's directorial debut. As like many other directors like him (Cory Yuen for example), it seems that all their objectives is to make the ultimate action scenes in the film and the remaining stuff be just reel fillers. I really like the access card stealing scene and one fight scene involving Wu Jing with like, 71 security guards. There are many action scenes but most of them were done sloppily without much regards to perfection. You would probably have seen the best bits in the trailer already. Whenever one of the Twins do her own stunt, the whole thing gets into slow motion to ensure that the audiences witness that.

Technically, this film stinks. I have never seen such bad color quality in HK cinema before. And the camera moves in angles as advanced as the 60's. Sudden zoom into objects to ensure the audience know what message they are trying to convey. The horrendous & cheap background music gave me nightmares during the silence at night. And the terrible voice dubbing! Even though the characters were speaking in Cantonese, they were still dubbed.

This is perhaps an attempt for Wu Jing's first breakthrough film after a string of failures in Legend of Zu, Drunken Monkey, Fatal Contact and SPL. He did a good action job in the last film though. The Twins deliver their usual goodness even though Charlene looks really bored most of the time. But then again, I can't complain as she is maturing into a very beautiful lady now! Yuen Wah and Sammo Hung were predictable but reliable.

No breakthroughs, storywise. Just a decent one, good enough to keep you waiting for the ending to come.

If you are bored with the movie, just like myself, you can pass time by counting the amount of glass that were broken throughout the whole movie.

Rating:
6/10

Notes:

The other female pair of twins, Mona and Lisa Ch'ng, got me wondering how they got that sort of Malaysian/Singaporean surname. Apparently their father is a Malaysian businessman, married to a former ATV actress.

Last updated: 2009-08-11 21:55:59 by joekhor