With its whole cast on top form, this is a wonderfully warm and enjoyable relationships comedy by scripwriter-turned-director James Yuen about an advertising agency executive who just can't keep a regular woman.
Wai (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) is disconsolate over his love life, despite the fact that a colleague, Patrick (Alex Fong), seems to have no problems cheating on his longtime Shanghainese girlfriend (Eileen Tung). His problems are compounded when the firm gets a new, super-yuppie boss (Ada Choi), who's rumoured to be a lesbian and
tells Wai to get his act together. Both men's love-lives become chaotic when Wai is targeted by both his boss (who's certainly no lesbian!) and a sexy new model (Vivian Hsu), and Patrick is targeted by a female colleague (Suki Kwan) who's always loved him. In a very different role to her TV reporter in Ringo Lam's The Suspect, Choi is terrific as the cool but sexually ravenous boss, and both Leung and Fong very good as the two men who can't cope.
Though made for Wong Jing's company Bob & Partners, the film has all the hallmarks of the now-defunct United Filmmakers Organization, for whom director Yuen wrote some of Peter Chan's best relationships movies like He's a Woman, She's a Man
(UdineIncontri 1998). Amazingly, the whole film was shot in only 15 working days.
Derek Elley