This is the Chinese movie called Armageddon, not to be mixed up with the Bruce Willis/Ben Affleck one. It stars Andy Lau as one of the foremost inventors in the world. Or is it scientist. It's a bit confusing. I decided to watch this one with English audio as both the Cantonese and the Mandarin tracks sounded as if they were dubbed. The video transfer was not very good.
Being on the list of best scientists is a bad thing, as some of them have been murdered. A team on secret agents come to protect him, but he wants his old elementary school classmate to do it even though he appears to be inept.
The movie is a bit ho hum in the beginning even though the scientists appear to be dying of spontaneous combustion. I don't know about you, but that always is a show stopper.
Somehow the murders coincide with Armageddon as do world events and Andy just happens to figure it out. Scientists, you know, have a duty to take care of all people of the world. What a burden! Andy is drawn in to figuring out the plot of this movie by the ghost of his dead girlfriend who keeps showing up. Can Andy keep himself and his friends from self ignition?
I bet everyone will want to know, so I wont'd give it away.
I rate this one 2/5 acorns. My two sons only gave it 1.
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