Seems like vampires are everywhere these days. Whatever the fascination is, I seem to have missed the boat. A friend of mine was trying to explain to me that the whole notion of the vampire taps into our current collective conscience. Y'know, blood sucking parasites partaking in feeding frenzies at the expense of others. He's got a point there.  Then again, one of my co-workers just thought it was cool to attend vampire conventions so he could go around biting women on the neck. I'm not sure where THE TWINS EFFECT falls on this continuum, and I'm not quite ready to jump on the fanged bandwagon, but I did find this film surprisingly entertaining for the most part.

You can get a proper plot summary in Val Frost's review (click to see Val's review). I'm too lazy and will only use three words. Vampires. Vampire hunters. That's all you need.

You don't go to this film for the action. The fight scenes are nothing to get excited about, and most are drawn out much too long. What I love about THE TWINS EFFECT is the comedy. Charlene Choi is irresistible as a girl who's just about had it with the boys.  When she finally finds a good one, of course, he's a vampire. Big deal. She'd rather have a vampire hickey than get dumped again. 

THE TWINS EFFECT has some nice little touches: A great catfight over, of all things, a teddy bear; a vampire prince too spoiled and snooty to take his blood from anything but vintage wine bottles. Karen Mok has a hilarious scene as a deliciously inebriated bride.  There's also a great cameo by Jackie Chan whose comedic touch fits perfectly with the tone of this film.

Speaking of tone, alas, THE TWINS EFFECT suffers from a jarring shift at about the one-hour mark. Then things get all serious and action oriented, and I went to sleep.  Seems to be a common thing in Hong Kong film from COME DRINK WITH ME to SO CLOSE. They start out in one direction, develop plot and characters nicely, and then BAM!!! Throw the monkey wrench in, and I'm left scratching my head. Because I'm still scratching my head, I'm going to have to give this an indifferent 3 rating, but do know there are some thoroughly entertaining elements worth checking