I was hoping for a lot more from Wu Jing’s directorial debut. I love that he is trying his hand, but this story is uninspired, and the score awful, and while the action is decent, their is not really enough to carry the film. And the realistic feel is hampered by a bit too much bad wirefu which hurts the film overall. Wu Jing is decent enough here, and the Eurasian Celina Jade is cute, but that isn’t enough for this film to be anything but forgettable. And this is another film that really suffers from the post handover film restrictions as you know what will happen to the “bad guys” no matter what. Wu Jing is certainly someone to be watched, as he is a possible Jet Li successor having gone through the same Wushu training and won the same national tournaments, but hopefully he can be in some better films soon.

Bo (Wu Jing) visits a restaurant and then heads to a rural island off of Hong Kong, where he goes and kills crime boss Chairman Ma (Kou Zhan-Wen) having first knocked out his men, who only saw that he was carrying a brown bag (which is actually a bowling bag). Bo heads back to the ferry, but it is stopped because of a typhoon warning, so he is stuck in the island. As Bo wanders around, he saves a woman named Hiu Wor (Celina Jade) when she falls out of a tree trying to retrieve her cat. The go back to her place, where he realizes she is a police office, and then head out to the one open restaurant to get some food. On the radio is a broadcast about 3 theives who are also eating dinner there. Hiu Wor confronts the men (led by Jackie Chan’s ex body guard Ken Lo), but gets attacked, so Bo must save her, and they head back to the police station.

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Most of the cops take to Bo right off, especially the sergeant (Hui Siu Hung) as well as the cop played by Alex Fong Lik Sun, though he is not liked by one who likes Hui Wor (Ronald Cheng Chung Kei).

Meanwhile Charman Ma’s wife (Aoyama Norkio) sends a group of her men, led by the great Lam Suet to the island to find her husband, and when they find his body, to find his severed head.

The cops get a call about a disturbance at the temple (where Bo killed Ma) and Hui Wor and the suspicious cop head there on bikes and confront the gang and find Ma’s body which is missing a head. They are almost taken, but are saved by Bo, who tries not to be seen, but is. The cops take the body to their police station.

Ma’s wife sends the men to get her husband’s body back, so they assault the headquarters and kill the cop played by Alex Fong.

When the ferry’s start running, a group of cops come over to take over and find the killer. Bo is confronted by them all at the ferry, and Hui Gor opens his bag, finding only a bowling ball, and she gives him her number and her is allowed to leave.

Bo is confronted by Ma’s men on the other side and he drops his bag, and the bowling ball opens to reveal Ma’s head, and it is seen by cops, so they know it was Bo, but he gets away.

Ma’s wife has Hui Wor taken and locked up, and calls Bo from her phone. He goes to confront and save her, and fights his way through a hundred men, and does very well for himself, but is killed, but Ma’s wife killed him in front of Hui Gor, so they now have proof against her.

At the end their is a news report that Hui Gor sees about a woman that Chairman Ma killed, who was a missionary, and since Ma left his head on her grave, he was getting revenge for her death.

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Quite a let down. Some interesting action, but overall pretty much a waste.