Having spent the past 30 years in Brazil, Mountain Leopard (Eric Tsang), is back in Hong Kong with a vengeance, to reclaim his honour at having lost the only woman he had ever loved to a rival triad member, Nine Dragons. He met and 'recruited' Smokey, a 18 year old boy, to help him locate Nine Dragons so that he can kill him. After all, is sure ain't easy locating someone after 30 years with only a nick-name to go by.

The plot is there, but there are just too many misses in the processes. Like, why would somebody wait 30 years to come back and reclaim a lost love. (though this is revealed later, but it's still a 'duh'). If Mountain Leopard was so besotted with the nameless woman whom he saw in a nightclub, there was really no need to wait 30 long years. And the part about him describing to the street painter in Brazil how she looked like and the painter produced a photo-image portrait of her is just too unbelievable.

The depiction of gang members is just laughable. Purple leather jacket and pants, wearing sunglasses even at night, thick gold chains (trying to emulate Mr T?), and peppered with the expressions of 'be cool, man' and 'no problem' is really tacky.

Shu Qi (of Jackie Chan's Gorgeous, which I believe is so miscast, but that's another story) has just a mere role her, all she has to do is sit and look pretty. She is the nameless woman whom Mountain Leopard is in love with, even as he has only seen her for less than 10 minutes and knows not her name.

And Smokey's mother is a hooker, and she just sits by the infamous red-light street hoping to see and recognise the man who fathered her son. Well you see, she was smoking while she was 'entertaining' the client and with all that smoke, she couldn't well see his face. So she has been sitting there ever since. Oh, this is so ridiculous. At least we now know how Smokey got his name.