Chinese remake of Luc Besson’s LA FEMME NIKITA. Now I have seen both Nikita and the American version (POINT OF NO RETURN) but I don’t remember them sucking quite like this one did. Motivation anyone?

Jade Leung plays Catherine, a wild chick who, for whatever reason, is working at a greasy spoon in the middle of nowhere America. She goes bonkers when a trucker makes a pass at her and it just doesn’t get any more unbelievable than this opening scene. After killing the trucker and a policeman, Catherine is hauled away to jail, beat up, then brought to trail TWO DAYS LATER. Yeah. Riiiiiight. She escapes, is shot and captured by the CIA. Declared dead to the world, she becomes a secret agent. After a year of training she is released and begins her double life. Her first assignment is to kill a bride at an outdoor Jewish wedding. Oddly enough, all the groomsmen had semi-automatics! Imagine that?

Catherine, now renamed Erica, starts her life in Hong Kong under the guise of a photojournalist. She meets Allen, a bird lover, at a local sanctuary when offing some dude and they hook up. But as they become closer, Catherine’s job endangers Allen’s life. They travel to Japan for an assignment and Allen learns the truth to Catherine’s identity…

The dialogue is god-awful; and I don’t mean the Chinese dialogue but the English dialogue. Leung is never really convincing as the wild cat; subtly ain’t her specialty, it would appear. Simon Yam is smooth as her boss in the CIA but has little to do. The editing is crap and guns appear out of nowhere. And then the ending is just freaking lazy. Ick.