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The Wonder 7 are the finest special unit the Chinese secret service has to
offer, so it comes as little surprise that they are sent to interfere in an
arms deal that is to take place in Hong Kong, & that has something to do
with 2 coded cards, by colonel Yim (Wong Kam-Kong) ... Unfortunately
though, some evil gang, led by loose cannon Tsun (Ho Chin) & his able
girlfriend Ying (Michelle Yeoh) are after the coded cards, too, & at the
end of the day both the Wonder 7 & their adversaries come out with one card
each, & matters are not made any better by the fact that 7's leader Fei (Li
Ning) has fallen in love with Ying. Both sides will stop at nothing, so at
one occasion, the 7's commander (Kwan Hoi-shan) is actually killed & Fei
tricked into shooting at his colleague Dragon (Vincent Lau), who comes out of
it seriously wounded & is hospitalized. Fei meanwhile is arrested for
murder by his own instructor Coach (Elvis Tsui), & only thanks to his
teammates, who believe in his innocence, is he set free. Soon, Fei sets a
date with Ying, to get the villains' card from her - & she plans to do the
same - but it all ends in a giant shoot-out, at which point Ying begins to
doubt the righteousness of the organisation she works for, & she helps Fei
get away, & even helps him against Coach & his men who want to arrest
him, but are persuaded to give Fei 48 hours to find the cards & with them
the real killer. Of course Tsun & his company soon set one trap after the
other for our heroes, which they all come out of alive ... except for teammate
Superman (Andy Hui), who had to give his life for his teammates. Finally Fei
is to hand over the card they already have to colonel Yim ... which is when
he's warned by Ying that this is a trap & Yim is a double agent, which -
would you believe it - ends in another shoot-out. In the end, Tsun invites
the Wonder 7 to his skyscraper to get his card, bot only if they survive the
little game of death he has arranged for them ... & at that time Ying has
completely lost faith in her boyfriend/leader & sides with the Wonder 7 who
soon enter the skyscraper on ther moto-cross bikes, guns blazing, & it is
not long before they get colonel Yim to confess he has killed their commander
... after which they promptly gun him down. Tsun however proves to be a
tougher cookie, & he has taken Ying his hostage too ... & then there's
also Coach, who has picked precisely this point of the story to go & arrest
Fei, & he almost blows up the whole skyscraper, too, before Fei can
convince him of his innocence. Tsun however has made a getwaway in a
helicopter with Ying ... when the Wonder 7 shoot the helicopter down with a
lift-cabin catapulted out of its shaft, & so that Ying can survive, the
copter's fall just happens to be stopped by a flagpole, & Fei has just
enough time to save her ... Tsun dies though ... Of course this
movie contains nicely choreographed actuion-scenes - as much should be expected
from Ching Siu-Tung - but on a story level, let's face it, it's just a major
disappointment, filling the time between the shoot-outs with one overused
cliché after the other, & what's worse, at no point even realising the
ironic potential of its story (which is really hard to miss, after all this is
a movie about heroes on moto-cross bikes), pretty much taking all the fun out
of the proceedings.
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