Veteran Hong Kong director
Johnnie To spins this wild, kinetic crime thriller. Following a failed assassination attempt on his life, crime boss Lung (
Ko Hung), instructs his henchman Frank (
Simon Yam) to find the villain behind the plot. Frank soon hires a quintet of hired guns to guard the boss, including the laconic Curtis (
Anthony Wong), the flinty Roy (
Francis Ng) and his protégé Shin (Jackie Lui), the haggard Mike (
Roy Cheung), and firearms expert and peanut enthusiast James (
Lam Suet). The group manages to thwart three attempts on the old man's life -- one from a sniper, a second in a shopping mall, and the third in an old warehouse -- until they figure out that rival crime boss Fat Chung (Wong Tin-lan) had order the hit. This film was screened at the 2000
Berlin Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide