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This is a Hong Kong crime comedy starring Teddy Robin Kwan as a manager of an all-girl music band, whom becomes the target of spies when he inadvertently takes a microfilm containing the map to stolen Taiwan treasures.

Kwan stars with Nina Li Chi and Sibelle Hu in this movie. The three makes a pretty charismatic trio, but much of the plot and story is lost in the goofball comedy and limited action. Kwan does over do it in the humor many times, which can get quite annoying.

There are some exciting action and chase sequences, but this is more of a very average film.

Grade C-

Teddy Robin Kwan, an actor shorter than average but not short enough to be classified as a midget, plays the manager of an all-girl music band ("The Playgirls"), who becomes the target of spies from different agencies when he comes into possession (without even knowing it) of a top-secret microfilm containing the map to stolen Taiwan treasures. "To Spy With Love" is about 85% comedy, and the comedy is largely unfunny. You may laugh a little here and there, but mostly it's really tedious. Teddy Robin Kwan does not have enough charisma, comic or of any other type, to be the lead of a film. The film threatens to come to life after an hour, with its one major action sequence that begins with a motorcycle firing a missile at a truck and ends with a rather unique chase on large ice-cubes! But the other action set-piece, the climactic fight between Nina Li and Sibelle Hu, with Kwan caught in the middle, is disappointingly gimmicky. Not really a recommended movie. (*1/2)

Sep 21

To Spy With Love, a Hong Kong comedy clearly based on the Tom Hanks comedy "Man with one red shoe", the story is the same and it borrows a couple of scenes directly.

Instead of Tom Hanks and Lori Singer we get Teddy Robin and Nina Li Chi, as well as Sibelle Hu, Elsie Chan and Amy Yip.

Teddy Robin is probably best known to a western audience from Twin Dragons, where he plays Jackie Chans best friend.

Anyway i like this, its a fun comedy as was Man with one red shoe, and the cast is very likeable.

Above average.

7.5 out of 10.