Here's an example of a movie that doesn't work even if you hire the best actors to do their job.

The movie seems to have Japanese production, and no doubt it has Japanese movie like story, to it. They might of thought that hiring the best of Hong Kong acting talent, and combine it with Japanese-ish visuals would instantly create a success. Well, they were wrong.

I'm an Asian movie fan, and I'm a fan of both Hong Kong, and Japanese movies, but I've rarely seen an incipit movie as this one. It was infuriating to watch the talents wasted.

The movie does no justice to Anita Mui, and Simon Yam, and it was a mismatch like hiring French actors to do an American movie.

It might have worked if the actors were all Japanese, and then it would have been like some of the Kadokawa movies.

2.5/10

Miss Anita Mui! It is actually based on real events, or is it less single travel! Obscure and gloomy without hope and redemption, it is indeed a heart-wrenching holiday!

This film has a beautiful package--gorgeous settings, beautiful stars, astonishing photography--but surprisingly void of content. Suspending disbelief at the plot's central conceit is nigh on impossible, for starters... then, the contrivance of the kidnapping--which plays into many foreigners's worst prejudices and fears about the Arab world, and is relatively unfounded in fact--is laughable. Not as laughable as R. Junna's performance, though: basically, she utters dry English lines without conviction, or screams/cries/wails hysterically. Anita Mui's embers smolder and flame, but she seems out of place in a film of (poorly directed?) second-rate actors. I was bored silly through most of the Morocco sequences: the characterization was stereotypical (who is Mike, and why should we care about him? why on earth would any woman be interested in the callow Chinese doctor, is unimaginable, etc.) and the plot painfully predictable. A voyeur's paradise, maybe, but a critic's nightmare.