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Yui's (Eason Chan) & Ching's (Niki Chow) relationship has seen better
times, as the whole thing has lost its romance. They decide to go to Europe to
try & rediscover their feelings for each other ... but when they want to go
to the airport, they find their car has been stolen - & while he wants to
report it to the police, Ching wants to not waste any time & go to Europe
no matter what. A rowe ensues, & they split up (at least for the time
being).
On the way to the police though, Yui finds his car again, though ... but
when he opens the trunk, he finds an injured gangster threatening him with a
gun inside - & as if that wasn't enough, he gets into a shoot-out between
the gangster & his accomplices & the police ... with the gangsters
winning. Instead of shooting him too, though, they take Yui, an ER nurse, with
them to nurse the wounded man.
Soon the gangsters, led by Wah (Wang Zhi Wen) get involved into another
shoot-out with a local gang, & Yui sees a chance to escape & takes it
... until he finds a pregnant woman in pain nearby, &, him being a nurse,
scraps his escape plans to help her ... which is a bad idea since she turns out
to be Wah's wife, & he soon becomes the gangsters' hostage again with even
more wounded men to attend to (& them dieing like flies, it seems). In a
fit of rage though, Yui throws a bag containing the gang's treasured cocaine
out of the car they are driving in, which causes one of them to jump out of the
driving car as well ... & just as soon being overrun. That doesn't help the
situation of course, & the gangsters, who trust him now less than ever,
force him to be their driver in their next bust ...
Ching meanwhile has witnessed the gangsters kidnapping Yui & reports it
to the police - who think Yui is a member of the gang though, & they want
to hold her for questioning - but she can escape in a car borrowed from a
friend & manages to pick up Yui's trail by a set of novelty wristwatch
radios she & Yui are wearing ... only to witness him driving the assault
& escape car in a very violent money transport raid that ends in yet
another bloody shootout, with the gangsters soon down to a mere trio - Wah, his
wife & his brother -, & Yui, who is now more needed than ever, since
both the men are wounded, & in bad need of a blood transfusion ...
something Wah's wife figures Ching could get them, since because of her
boyfriend she might have access to the hospital's blood reserves ... & she
proves to be right.
However when she goes to pick up the blood from Ching, she finds her not
unprepared , & Ching forces her to take her to take her to Yui.
Yui meanwhile has finally had enough of the abuse he gets from the
gangsters, despite trying to nurse them back to health, & pretty much beats
them - them not being the fittest anymore due to mutiple bullet wounds - to
death, but not before Wah shoots him into leg & shoulder as a thank you.
Arriving at the scene - at dopckside - Wah's pregnant wife is shocked, but
still able to overcome Ching & drive her car into the water. Then she
shoots herself, Wah's arm around her.
The badly injured Yui, who was never a good swimmer & is afraid of the
water, jumps in anyhow & saves Ching from drowning ... but dies in the
process.
´In the end, only Ching & the kid of Wah & his wife survive ...
Obviously, this film tries desperate to tell an original story within the
gangster-genre & tries to tag many novel plottwists to it ... however not
always successful, as the film often, by taking an all-too-sudden turn, plunges
into another bad genre cliché head-on (the worst being the ending, when Yui,
in a desperate situation, overcomes his fear of water to save his girlfriend -
& that he dies in the process doesn't make this scene any less cheesy).
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