I have decided that John Woo is the Asian Michael Bay. Also, Chow Yun Fat should never do comedies. Not ever. I have no doubt that as a person he's the life of the party, but for God's sake, let him be dignified on film. This was just painful. Joey (Chow Yun Fat), Jim (Leslie Cheung), and Cherie (Cherie Chung) are three kids raised to be thieves by a total asshole (Kenneth Tsang). They enjoy their work, but Cherie wants to go straight. The boys, however, decide to take One Last Job stealing a painting from a French mansion.
The internet has completely failed to provide me either the name of this painting or a decent screenshot. It's a shame, really, because I actually really liked the painting.
Anyway, it's supposedly cursed and, sure enough, everything starts to go wrong as they try and escape with it and Joey ends up blown up. Jim starts dating Cherie and they start putting their life back together. Then Joey shows back up in a wheelchair. Despite his handicap, he still wants to help Jim pull off a job to get back at their asshole mentor, who was the one who set them up in the first place.
This isn't exactly what I was expecting when I read "John Woo" and "action caper" on the back of the Netflix sleeve. The comedy is very slapstick and Chow Yun Fat does his best to act like Jim Carrey which is precisely as painful as it sounds. Also, the movie is filmed in a bizarre mix of English, French, and Cantonese and no one's mouth really matches their dialogue which means that it was probably filmed and then the actors came in and re-dubbed their lines. I hate that.
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