The plot revolves around the farcical situation set up when a narcotics deal goes wrong and he becomes the recipient of a large amount of cash. As a result the hapless victim is chased around Xiamen by the underworld, keen to get their cash and goods back.
The characters portrayed in the film are mostly dislikeable rogues, low life crooks and grotesque caricatures of everyday people magnified by a hundred. There are no good guys, everyone’s bad! It’s not a pretty film, but has some hilariously dark moments (two villains checking the narcotics content of a deal accidently rubbing the ashes of a recently cremated person across their teeth-the frozen body of a Thai crook appearing with a somewhat startled look on his face in the back of a freezer wagon). One of my favourite scenes involves a moment when a married couple try to outbid each other to have hit-men kill their respective partner-macabre, tense and hilarious all at the same time.
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