| Wu Nien-Jen,
Elaine Jin, Virginie Ledoyen , Carrie Ng, Ko Yu-lun, Chang Chen.
The European Upper Crust meets the
Taiwan Underworld in this convoluted comic action thriller. Winston
Cheng (Chang Kuo-shu) is a prominent businessman who has somehow
managed to fall deep into debt to organized crime leaders in Taipai,
to the tune of $100 million. When it becomes clear that the gangsters
are tired of waiting for their money, Cheng goes underground, just
as two mob enforcers (Wu Nein-jen and Wang Po-sen) are sent out
to find him. Cheng's son (Tang Tsung-sheng) -- who calls himself
Red Fish -- is the leader of a street gang; the gunmen start following
Red Fish and his partners in crime -- Hong Kong (Chang Cheng), Lun
Lun (Ko Yu-lun), and Little Buddha (Wang Chi-tsan) -- in hopes that
the son will lead them to the father. Meanwhile, Marthe (Virginie
Ledoyen) has come from France to Taipai in search of Markus (Nick
Erickson), her former lover who has relocated from London. Marthe
discovers that Markus has a new girlfriend, Alison (Ivy Chen); feeling
hurt and rejected, Marthe runs into Lun Lun and the rest of Red
Fish's gang at the Hard Rock Cafe, and she spends the night with
them. Marthe and Lun Lun soon become romantically involved, which
drives a wedge between him and the other members of the gang; meanwhile,
Ginger (Diana Dupuis), the operator of an escort service, wants
to recruit Marthe to work for her. Red Fish encounters Angela (Carrie
Ng), who double-crossed Winston years ago; he sets out to avenge
the wrong done to his father, but soon he soon learns that Winston
is in more immediate danger than he imagined. |