Herman Yau directs and Anthony Wong, Andy Hui and Linda Wong star in this highly entertaining action comedy. Yau has given credit to Anthony for boosting his career in his early days by appearing in Untold Story and Taxi Hunter when Wong was already a big star. Their collaborations were to continue in many films up to Ip Man: The Final Fight and two films in 2017 - 77 Heartbreaks and The Sleep Curse. Wong is such an astonishing actor if you look at his resume. And it is quite the resume - over two hundred films. Two hundred frigging films in which he was the star or co-star in most. He has been in some bad films but I can't think of his giving a bad performance though he has admitted that he was bored to death in some and doing it for the money.  He is great in this creating an oddball obsessed character with a big heart and filled with steel. It is fun to just watch him in action.


In the beginning you think it is going to be another one of his psychotic characters as the walls in his apartment are covered with posters of Stallone, Willis, Arnold, Lethal Weapon and others. And the camera goes in for a close-up of his sweating face, horn-rimmed glasses and slightly crazed expression. But in fact, he is a traffic warden handing out tickets. He wanted to be a cop but his poor eyesight would not let him. While he is on duty a bank is robbed and he helps stop the getaway car. One of the robbers runs down an alley and is followed by a cop played by Bowie Lam. This guy has the money and Bowie kills him and hides the bag.  He is the hero in the newspapers and drinks with Wong afterwards when they realize they knew each other years ago. They get drunk and Wong somehow ends up with his phone.




He gets a call on it from Linda - played by Linda Wong who is the daughter of Jimmy Wang-yu and Jeanette Lin. She is a very good singer and not surprisingly quite attractive. In this one she has a kind of Joey Wong look. She wants to kill herself because Bowie has ignored her for a month. Later we find out why. Anthony goes to her and has some thrills on a Ferris wheel trying to rescue her from sulking. He promises to find Bowie. He pulls in a lower Triad member (Andy Hui) to help by telling him he is a cop. And tells Linda the same. The film goes into overdrive when the robbers come looking for the money.


A few topnotch action scenes with the final one having an amazing car stunt wreck. Wong keeps flashing his I.D. saying it is a police badge and is able to control everything - very amusing at times - even the cops believe him.  Some of the action is done for fun - at one point in a shoot-out with the robbers he does his best Chow Yun-fat imitation but misses everyone and when he does the two-handed shooting jump he lands on his face and can barely get up. By the end, you are really rooting for these three.

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