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Alas, a film with this many high-tech elements is ultimately derailed by that most low-tech element of all, the script. Penned by Greg Melliot (seemingly over a lunch break), the threadbare premise rests on clichés, non sequiturs, feeble attempts at humor and characterization as thin as rice-paper. With such material to work with, it is unsurprising that even a talented actor’s director like Yip fails to wring effective performances from his cast. Leon Lai is characteristically handsome and bland, while Jordan Chan is uncharacteristically unengaging and aloof. Even Sam Lee?...
...story is what Variety would dub “one of those things.” Fittingly enough, in a film about high-tech thievery, the main plot elements themselves appear to have been stolen from Mission Impossible 2. Lai is Mac, the leader of the Skyline Cruisers, a gang of high-tech thieves with outrageously inventive gimmicks at their disposal. When the Cruisers undertake a “Mission Noble” to rescue a cure for cancer from the hands of evil, they run into unexpected obstacles, including a former Cruiser who betrayed...
...characterization, but for the action and the visuals. And these are treasures that Skyline Cruisers delivers in spades. The initial raid to steal the cancer drug is taut and perfectly paced. Tension is present in every drama-drenched second as Mac and company infiltrate the building utilizing incredible high-tech devices. Yip manages to make all this techno-wizardry compelling rather than obtuse or obnoxious. Multi-hued shades of lighting, smooth-as-butter tracking shots, and perfectly filmed set-ups make the break-in a visual palette of wonders, easily rivaling and occasionally outdistancing any of Tom Cruise?...
...dire consequences of a stock market decline apply to particular sectors of the economy and the Square is not high-tech sensitive," Laibson says. "It's mostly a destination for students and tourists and I don't think Harvard students are in the hardest hit group...
...across the U.S., high-tech givers have been scaling back. eBay vice president Jeff Skoll, who commands a $2.1 billion net worth, pared his contributions from $47.5 million in 1999 to a still hefty $39 million in 2000. The cutbacks came as eBay's stock lost more than 70% of its value last year. At Kana Communications, a troubled software maker whose shares have fallen more than 98% from their 52-week high, the $1 million worth of stock that vice president Michael Wolfe pledged to Stanford a year ago nearly evaporated. By the time the school received and sold...