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...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’s manic persona is considerably tamer here. Hsu Chi, one of the few actresses in modern cinema to possess acting skills to accompany her pretty face, barely registers in her throwaway part...

Author: By Marcus L. Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cruising The 'Skyline' In Style | 4/20/2001 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Marcus L. Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cruising The 'Skyline' In Style | 4/20/2001 | See Source »

starring Leon Lai,Jordan Chan, Hsu Chi, Golden Harvest

Author: By Marcus L. Wang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cruising The 'Skyline' In Style | 4/20/2001 | See Source »

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Author: By Amy W. Lai, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Highest Judge in the Land Reveals (Almost?) All About Highest Court | 4/13/2001 | See Source »

...Most deny there are any problems in the provinces at all. No official would say why the two Jarai tribesmen were arrested (both have been released after signing self-criticisms). They say demonstrators were promised money to come to the protests and left peacefully when they received none. Gia Lai's Governor Ha, one of the few who acknowledges that transmigration has caused tensions, says the government has compensated the minorities by giving them free education and health care. "Just as in a family, the children may be jealous of each other," Ha says. "It's our job as 'parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brewing Discord | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

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