This is a delightfully trippy lark that should have been accompanied by a soundtrack with Nancy Sinatra singing, “The Last of the Secret Agents”. I am not sure if this would be called a James Bond imitator or a James Bond parody or even perhaps a parody of a James Bond parody. During the film, Ji is captured and brought to the Temptress Cave so often that it’s a shame she wasn’t in a frequent flyer program – but the Temptress of course never kills her – it’s so much more fun to toy with your captives like a ball of yarn. Next the Temptress takes on the appearance of Ji and steals diamonds right under the noses of police just to be mean and to get Ji in trouble with her boyfriend. This isn’t so bad, but when the Temptress then seduces Yuk Dat while the real Ji is forced to watch on a close circuit TV from her cell in the cave it’s a bit much for Ji who then in a fury breaks out of her confinement and shoots a passel of bad guys while still in her underwear. When she breaks out of the cave and finds herself on a busy highway, she brings traffic to an immediate standstill as every man offers her a ride and a leer. It only gets better though as she rushes to her boyfriend's house to save him from the clutches (and so much more) of the Temptress and finds them both still in bed. This leads to a lovely cat fight that sends them both crashing through doors and walls while poor Yuk Dat looks on in bemusement – certainly two Tina Chin-fei’s in underwear are better than one! Interspersed in all of this is some bad slapstick comedy that should have been out of place but in retrospect nothing would really be out of place in this film, a pointless cabaret show with a heavily voluptuous female, a wooden leg filled with diamonds, a fight between Ji and four henchmen all adorned with specialized weapons (one guys whips out a ball and mace from his pocket! I could almost hear Mae West crack "And I thought you were just glad to see me!"
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