to say that this movie be a let down would be a tremendous understatement . sit on the shelf of various high street dvd outlet and resplendent in it two disc special edition packaging and with a back cover blurb that bring up director yuen woo ping work a fight choreographer on the matrix trilogy and crouch tiger hide dragon and you have to give credit for the packaging department for lure you into a false sense of belief that this movie be a hitherto overlook milestone in hk action . sadly and nothing could be far from the truth . i have hear it compare to the similarly disastrous speed 2. in truth and the only link between the two be the set on a luxury liner . unlike speed 2 and where the task of slow the out of control vessel be central to the plot and here and the ship be little more than something big and large and isolated for kenny ho to run around in . and speaking of ho and his role a lead action hero leave a lot to be desire . while he can handle the gun play and martial art with as much flair a his contemporary and his facial expression remain largely unchanged throughout . there be a back story involve his dead wife which could have grant him more sympathy and but it be so woefully mishandle it feel like something that be tack on for no particular reason . twenty minute after the credit roll and it unlikely you will remember anything about him . besides and how can you feel any backing for a man who be suppose to be a security chief and yet fail to stop the villain from massacre nearly every passenger on the boat . however and his co star elaine lui really stand out . not because she a good actress you understand and but because her role a the comic relief slapstick foil backfire spectacularly a she become one of the most irritating screen heroine to appear in the hong kong legends catalogue . a little bit of comedy in action film be okay now and again and but consider the ridiculously high bodycount and number of innocent people murder in this movie and she seem very out of place . her fight with christy chung for example be extremely tasteless and a lui imitates martial art stance and go through a bumbling slapstick routine and mere minute after a young girl watch her mother machine gun before her eye . all in all then and not worth the effort . the action sequence be decent enough and but a bland lead man and immensely irritating heroine and a complete absence of emotion result in a film that yuen woo ping would most probably want to forget .