Koroshiya & usotsuki musume

Naturally I bought this movie to see Vivian Hsu, and of course I wasn't disappointed. She is her usual gorgeous self, as she we see her get chased after, kidnapped, shot at, sing a melancholy song, and get 'tricked' left, right and centre.

The movie's about her getting kidnapped or something... I'm not sure exactly what was going on in the end, and what the main character's motivations were - but oh well, it was a pretty average action movie, with bullets flying everywhere, and people looking serious.

The first half is probably the best, when Liwa (Vivian's character) and a tax-driver are being held hostage by her mysterious kidnapper, and they're trying to get rid of him. There's quite a bit of English dialogue in the movie, but none from Vivian.

Anyway, worth seeing if you want to see the leading lady.

An early scene in this film shows a car chase where the vehicle plows through a fruit vendor's cart. This should alert you that this film is full of the standard shoot-em-up gangster movie cliches. This includes stairway shoot-outs, a tower sniper, car chases, a motorcycle chase, a helicopter chase, two-fisted gunplay, and a flaming vehicle falling down an embankment. The only interesting thing about this movie is the Philipine shooting location.