I am a pretty big admirer of director Ching Siu-Tung's films, so I am biased in favor of this film, but really, what's not to like in a classic Hong Kong action film of the lighter and friendlier sort?
There is some kind of plot. A group of seven grown-up orphans works in Hong Kong as a crack top secret police team for the Chinese government (which would also make them something of secret agents, I suppose). Top secret as they may be, their style is about as subtle as you expect from seven people living on a houseboat when not flying through the air on or off their motorbikes while shooting wildly.
Would you believe that their newest case will lead them into a confrontation with mad villains, traitorous superiors, their old trainer and an incredible number of nameless henchmen?
There is lots of jumping, exploding, shooting, flying and completely ignoring those pesky laws of physics of course. As an additional bonus, Ching Siu-Tung also packs in some of his favorite colors, a love sub-plot with Michelle Yeoh as redemptive villainess (who really knows how to wear a scarf), and a Viking burial on a motorcycle.
I really don't know what more one could ask for.
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