A Matter Of Custom [TVB]

Written by pleple

"PART 2 BAD SIGNAL IS COMING + Liza and Danny’s boring part to be fast forward"

SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS!

I have finished A Matter of Custom for a few weeks and I try to replay some parts that I used to fast forward (Danny and Liza’s scene) in order to write this review.

How Long
32 episodes/16 tapes ( if each episode’s length = 45 minutes)

Who
Wong Hei = Kong
Jessica Suan = Moon
Liza Wong = Madam
Danny Wong = Sun(The MD of the big Magazine Company)
Jade Leang = Sun’s sister-in-law(She used to play Louis Koo’s pity lover in Burning Flame)
Ma Jang Ching= A member of Liza’s Custom Team( Who played “Suw Jeng”-Monk’s student in “Journey to the WestI-II)
Melissa Ng = Sun’s ex-wife( who used to play ex-love of Lawrence Au Chi Hua in “Till when do us part “ and “Our own Place)
Cheang Yue Sun = Seaw Yau(Her father was killed by Wong Hei and her mother was died due to Wong Hei)
Liza’s father = 70++-year-old Football player (played by Gallen Lo’s father in At the Theshold of an era)
Liza’s mother = 70++-year-old ex-novel writer ( Played by Grandma in Kindred Spirit)
Sunny Chan = Jacky ( who play Chan Jia Ler ‘s sister in “Burning Flame” and Miss Mo’s secretary in “War of Gender”)
Storyline

Wong Hei, Jessica, Liza and Ma jang Ching are the Custom Officer.
- Wong He is the Custom Police Captain ( The team leader for operation)who used to be the CID policeman but accidentally shot a criminal who has no weapon in hand(Hei thought that this criminal put his hand under the pillow to pick the gun up so Hei shot him but actually that man would pick drug) so he ask to transfer himself to the Custom Department.

- Jessica is the just graduated custom office who worked at airport. One day Liza who actually is her aunt in law pass that air port and cooperate to catch a criminal and see Jessica’s ability so transfer Jess to Liza’s division.

- Liza is Custom Police Inspector( the biggest in the station). She lives with her mother in law and she sometimes take care her parents. Her husband died by accident.

- Danny is the MD of a big magazine company who have a wife(Melissa) but she live abroad because he caused her to be unable-to-pregnant woman. He likes Liza’s mother’s novel and this lead him and Liza to be good friends.

PART 1 HAPPY PART
Liza has her own team which all of them rather close to each other. One day the new comers which are Wong Hei(Team Leader) and Jessica. Wong Hei can not get along with his colleague because he thought he just pay attention to work without need to create relationship. Wong Hei sometimes work with hot temper. Jessica come to work with full intention but without enough experience so she did something wrong and she was assigned only minor jobs. Jessica would like to help Wong Hei to cooperate better with the colleague and she try to open Hei’s private world without any special feeling at first. Hei gradually open his mind to his colleague and Jessica. When Jessica was injured by a criminal by injecting his AID disease, Hei support Jess and they start to have special feeling to each other. They implicitly and secretly are lovers because Jess’s mother did not like Hei and Hei’s father. After that It is about the problem of work and their love life.

PART 2 BAD SIGNAL IS COMING + Liza and Danny’s boring part to be fast forward
Suaw Yau who is the daughter of the criminal who Hei accidentally killed. She wanted to revenge Hei with every way but Hei can not fight back because he has to pay her life-debt. Hei try to change Yau’s mind and take care her until he started to have problem with Jess. Jess start see that this is unsolved problem and she asked to separate. Even Hei did not want to break but he respect Jess and accept to be good friends. Jes’s mother feel good for their break-up. They still love each other but this situation has no way out. After that Jess start to creat new relation with Hei’s brother with Hei’s support. Hei also start to be special with Yau.

For Liza, her parents died and she is alone and create teenage-like relationship with Danny. ( You can see Danny and lIza always hold hand even in front of Danny’s ex-wife and other young colleague who much younger but not show such romantic feeling as both old couple) Danny’s wife come back and still love him. Love triangle happen( Suck Scene ; for example, 1. all Liza, Melissa and Danny go to the restaurant and when Liza sit in a side and Mellissa sit in another side so Danny can not chose which side he should sit with so he ask the bellboy to pick another chair in order to let him sit between both of those women 2. Danny take Mellisa to the hill and she forgot her nech-cloth in his car and when he pick Liza for breakfast , Liza see and realise his hesitation between them) and finally Danny chose Liza.

PART 3 WONG HEI’S BAD LIFE
Another criminal come to revenge Hei which cause Yau’s mother died and Yau can not be with Hei anymore so she go away. Hei feel sad for guilty and has no chance to pay his another life-debt to Yau. Furthermore, he accidentally caused colleague death so he can not stand his fault and run to be a bad guy even Jess try to help him but he said that he need his private time. Jess finally found that Hei is a bad guy who addicted to drug and work for drug seller criminal. Danny also join drug seller criminal team. The team leader is a woman named Jacky who is a daughter of the super rich tycoon and is the drug seller agent for her father. Actually Wong Hei is an undercover cop who come to catch the drug-seller Tycoon while Jess and his family who do not know the fact of undercover try to bring Hei back to the good world. Hei was afraid that Jess and his family will be injured by that bad gang so he has to pretend to do many bad thing to push them away from that danger. Finally he can catch Jacky but he can not reach the Tycoon (like in our real life that the police can catch only small bad guy and let the big tycoons live with happy life around the society) and he is drowned in to the sea without explanation.

END

Jessica and Wong Hei
They are one of the best on-screen couple I have ever seen. I used to think that Jessica with Louis Koo are the best but Hei and Jess may be better. Even in this serie, there are not much live life scene between them because this serie concentrate more on old couple like Liza& Danny and Liza’s parent. Wong Hei and Jess are good at acting to make the audience believe that they love their couple very much no matter who are their couple.

In Burning Flame, Hei has to be in love with Esther who many people said that they are not compatible couple but Hei can act and make us believe that at that time Hei love Esther until Hei can betray his brother. Or in the scene when his mother was dying and he can act to show how much he love his mother which attack every audience’s heart. As you can see him like this in every series, his acting skill is brilliant.

In Detective Investigator File IV and Old Time Buddy, she make me believe that she love Louis and Au Jen Yui the most. She used to be said that she is not pretty when she first come to the entertainment business(like in the Recipe of the Heart) and she can prove now that she has both acting skill and charming look. She is better in long hair look like in AMOC.

Liza and Danny
This couple is boring until it is hard to explain about them. I’m like other audience who can not tolerate them by fast forwarding but I have to replay for this review. They are too old to be the main theme of any series. TVB try to push Liza to the heroin custom woman. At the first part (before she met Danny), she is like the super woman who is the idol for any custom woman. Liza dresses like a guy (in the black shirt) Jess saw Liza as her idol so Jess would like to be a custom officer. Liza’s team always praise her that she has a lot of experience and is valuable officer but actually she did not do any thing much. I always wonder what she do is valuable. After she met Danny, she change her dress to be like a pre-teenager who has small flower skirt and colorful and sweet suit. Furthermore, she will hold Danny’s hand in every place ( sweeter that any teenager couples) Danny has white hair in the front part of his head who has only two kind of face expression; 1- twist face( has many wrinkles in his face) to show his moody temper and serious feeling. 2- smile to show his happy emotion. Liza and Danny are too old to have such boring love triangle like in this serie as I have said before. Worse than that in the last part of the serie, Liza would like to have a baby and she talk to her ex-mother in law( Her ex-husband’s mother) who Liza and Danny respect like her own mother and finally Liza got pregnant at the age of 52++ years old. Oh No!

Favorite scenes
Every scene that has Jess and Hei or even has only one of them. It is good enough to see their acting. A very few love scenes in this serie are very very cute or even every scenes when they are still lovers.

Example: Hei and his father have some problems and Jess who at that time is Hei’s girlfriend is in her house which is close to Hei’s house would like to come to pamper Hei so Jess told her family that Jade Leang has love problem and she has to be her adviser. After that Jess come to Hei’s house and when she would go back to her house, her mother saw them together and ask why she is in Hei’s house so Jess said that Hei broke Jade’s heart and scold Hei that wish him had no girlfriend. This is cute message since she actually is his current girlfriend. You can see more cute scenes in AMOC.

I also like Jade Leang and Ma Jang Ching’s scene. They gradually develop their relationship from nothing to more and more deep feeling. They have bad moment of life so they take some alcohol, got drunk and slept together until Jade got pregnant so they have to marry without any feeling. After that they start to learn each other’ s life for the sake of their coming baby but they develop their relationship more and more. They are the only happy ending couple.
Favorite couple

Definitely, Wong Hei and Jess. They have chemistry and they have great acting skill to drive that chemistry more real and natural. They are always the couple even in the part that they are not the lovers anymore. They always care and understand each other. Actually it is hard to explain in a few words but you can realize by yourselves.

Best Actor/Actress
Wong Hei. Hei can use eye and face expression very well even Hei was blamed for his very small eyes. In AMOC, when hei has to do bad thing to his beloved persons like Jess or his parents, you can realize his deeply pain from his eyes and some nonverbal expression. I used to hear that Hei is an actor who ask the director to improvise some scripts to make better acting and act more naturally. I hate overact and underact which I will watch the right act with the great timing from Wong Hei and this will be much better if he has great actress like Jess. Somebody said that Hei got a little bit similar role but actually Hei has versatile roles in each series.

Jess can play very well as in other series. I like Jess’s natural acting. She can pair with any actor-Nick Cheang, Louise Koo, Booby Au Yung, Gallen Lo or Wong Hei.

Ma Jang Ching (He is the “Sua Jeng” in Journey to the west)is another one who play well. He can perform well both in humor and serious scenes. He should be in diet to have adroit body.
The scene that I used to think that I needn’t see but it is good to see

When I read some brief story from the forum, I would not like to see the scenes when Wong Hei break up with Jess and be with Sew Yau. When I really watch, I feel good to have a chance to watch and did not skip those parts.

When Sew Yau ‘s mother was killed because Hei used to be undercover and make the bad guy (who is the gay with Sew Yau’s father and jealeous Wong Hei and sew Yau’s mother )would like to kill Sew Yau’s mother finally. When her mother died, she feel that she can not be with Wong Hei who partially is the cause of her dad and mom, so she left Hei. Hei feel very sorry because Hei hurt Sew Yau many times and have no chance to take care her. As time passes, one day Hei went to catch the vender drug sellers and found one of that buyers is Sew Yau who faced a lot of bad situation and feel sorry for unable to be with Hei(the one she love very much). Hei hurt very much and want to help Sew Yau(He owed her a lot) He would like to protect Yau and more and more when he knew this is the last period of her life since she has AIDS. I would like to say that even Wong Hei is not with Jess actually, I love this part due to his brilliant acting. You should not skip this part, you may be sad and realize his pain.

Hate scenes, hate couple and hate actor/actress + Annoying Factor
Liza and Danny SURE. This serie will be memorable if there is no such couple. I used to like Lisa in At the theshold of an era because she play the role that suitable for her age and there is not much scenes for her. I would not like to see the old person to act like she is 25++ year old woman and not want to see old people life. They talk about the topics that I am not interested like tea preparation, very antique novel and old Chinese paintbrush. For their love life, I would like to die for their scene—holding hand, love triangle, jealeous

Example: Danny can not chose who he love the most. Melissa and Danny do to the hill and remind about their love. 8 years ago, Melissa got pregnant and Danny did not want to have a baby ask her to be aborted. Melissa made an argument for that issue and accidentally fall from hill until she can not have baby anymore. That the reason why she went abroad for 8 yrs. Back to the current period, Melissa’s neckcloth blown to the tree and Danny pick it for her, she hug him and ask for a chance to be together again. At the same time, Liza can not tolerate such love triangle(actually Liza should not tolerate such love triangle for a long time- too old to do like pre-teenager lovers) and she will leave. She is in the very big conference for her adopt child ‘s success ceremony which is full of the Press and people, Danny’s news reporter come to her and ask the question form internet whether she would like to have her own child (Oh my God, she is 52++ yrs old how can ask such question) and she answer that it depend on who is her husband. Danny come out with the computer among the exciting expression of the Press and people( What such old couple will do to show their romantic..Occh) and he straight to Liza and kiss her in front of a lot of people to show their love(they think this is very romantic but for me, it is distasteful. Even Liza was said to be the treasure of TVB but she has limitation for her role due to her old age(She is quite beautiful for 52++ yrs old woman but not look good enough to be like 30 year old woman.) TVB should keep some treasure in the casket/box, not always show out but should give the chance to younger such as Wong Hei, Jess, Louise, Bowie Lam, Gallen Lo, etc.

Worst Acting Award
Danny got my worst Acting award from me. For Danny, I know he used to be famous in action movie long long time ago but he can’t act at all. Furthermore, he don’t know that his acting is unnatural, in the news Danny blame Wong Hei that Hei do not follow script by improvising script. Danny said like bad rating is the result of Wong Hei’s performance and I hope you guy can realize who are the cause of bad rating. Hei always play with their colleague. I used to read Hei’s interview that Hei will study his script at home and come to work and join the cast to get along well when they are on screen. Sometimes he ask for adapt some part of script to make it more natural. Old style acting like Danny can not get it. I am glad to hear that Danny will not participate more in TVB deries. Good news right?

Unreasonable Factors
1. How can Liza be expected to be pregnant at the age of 52++?

2. Why Danny do not want to have a child but do not make birth control. When his wife got pregnant, he ask her to be aborted.

3. Why many women in AMOC must love Danny?(Just an old man who always make his face wrinkled and smile with reclined face(make 45 degree face like / ) Liza, Jade Leang and Melissa love him very much. I can’t believe this.

Unanswered Questions
1. Does Queenie(who is Wong Hei’s colleague who Hei accidentally cause her to death and she is the reason for Hei to be the undercover cop) die in the serie because at the last part a woman who has the same face as Queenie walk with a foreigner. Is she alive? I thought that Wong Hei ‘s inspector use Queenie’s issue to make Hei work as undercover for the police station.

2. Is Wong Hei died? Even he was drawned in the sea, I’m not sure. If this serie has high rating, I am so confident that there must be sequel but when it has not high, what happen next? I do not want to accept the sequel from Wong Hei’s MV(I have watched all of them) which also did not give the exact answer. Some said it is happy ending and some said it is sad ending, it depend on your own interpretation.

If I can change some part of AMOC
1. I will cut all
a. Liza and Danny’s part
b.Liza’s parent's part

2. I will find the way out for Wong Hei. Actually I accept that Wong Hei is hard to survive at the end when he did a lot of faults but every problems have solutions. For example, Hei should know that Queeny was not died yet. Give him the light life and happy love life. I believe human can have the happy life after bad life. In “nothing to declare”, Hei can have the happy life after bad life. If this serie can be changed as I want, I strongly believe that it must be one of the best series in the audience’s heart.
Worth Renting or not?

I would like to recommend that I watch this serie for Wong Hei and Jessica. Even there are a lot of Liza and Danny’s scenes, Wong Hei and Jess make this serie worth renting. You have right to fast forward undesirable part. For Wong Hei or Jess’s fan, you should not miss this. If you are not Wong Hei and Jes ‘s fan yet, let try to know why many people praise Wong Hei’s acting skill. Two Thumbs up for him!!

Rating
N/A

Interesting Facts
1. This serie did not get high rating. If you have watched it, you will find the true reason for such rating. ( Actually some series, which many people said that it has very bad script like Healing HandsII , got very high rating in Hongkong. It is hard to guess Hongkong people’s heart)

2. After that Danny come out to blame the AMOC production for bad script and preparation and also blame Wong Hei that Hei is not pay attention to the script. Danny said that he will not participate in TVB series anymore(good news), he can earn more money by producing low budget movies. If anyone did not watch this movie, they may blame Wong Hei for not high rating but actually not because of Hei but Danny himself. In acting world, pay attention is not enough but the actor have to find the way to act well and naturally. I hope others agree with me. I can’t accept Danny’s message to blame Wong Hei. Hei can not fight back because Danny come from old generation who is like more seniority.

3. All casts, except Danny, get along very well. They make very good team. Wong Hei write a letter in his forum that he like this cast team very much and he is afraid of the fact that they all will busy after AMOC until they can not contact each other. Hei is close to Jade Leang since they play in Burning FlameI together. Hei and Jess still contact each other. After AMOC, Jess have to go to work for “Back to the past” serie with Loius Koo in Paking, Hei has a work around China so he went to visit Jess and ask to play in that serie. Hei got a small role as an eunuch(King’s servant). I see Wong Hei with Jess in other events; for example, in Super Trio Game show- Hei, Jess, Jacky and Ma Jang Ching or in the preparation of TVB 33rd anniversary which Wong Hei did not participate in the actual ceremony because of his busy work.

4. There is a rumor that Wong Hei will pair up with Jess again in Burning FlameII. I hope this is true and Hei will not pair with Joey Yung.

5. Wong Hei is fluent in many languages such as Mandarin, Cantonese and English. For Jessica, she is fluent in English since she studied abroad for many years.

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A Matter Of Custom [TVB]

Written by pleple

"PART 2 BAD SIGNAL IS COMING + Liza and Danny’s boring part to be fast forward"

SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS!

I have finished A Matter of Custom for a few weeks and I try to replay some parts that I used to fast forward (Danny and Liza’s scene) in order to write this review.

How Long
32 episodes/16 tapes ( if each episode’s length = 45 minutes)

Who
Wong Hei = Kong
Jessica Suan = Moon
Liza Wong = Madam
Danny Wong = Sun(The MD of the big Magazine Company)
Jade Leang = Sun’s sister-in-law(She used to play Louis Koo’s pity lover in Burning Flame)
Ma Jang Ching= A member of Liza’s Custom Team( Who played “Suw Jeng”-Monk’s student in “Journey to the WestI-II)
Melissa Ng = Sun’s ex-wife( who used to play ex-love of Lawrence Au Chi Hua in “Till when do us part “ and “Our own Place)
Cheang Yue Sun = Seaw Yau(Her father was killed by Wong Hei and her mother was died due to Wong Hei)
Liza’s father = 70++-year-old Football player (played by Gallen Lo’s father in At the Theshold of an era)
Liza’s mother = 70++-year-old ex-novel writer ( Played by Grandma in Kindred Spirit)
Sunny Chan = Jacky ( who play Chan Jia Ler ‘s sister in “Burning Flame” and Miss Mo’s secretary in “War of Gender”)
Storyline

Wong Hei, Jessica, Liza and Ma jang Ching are the Custom Officer.
- Wong He is the Custom Police Captain ( The team leader for operation)who used to be the CID policeman but accidentally shot a criminal who has no weapon in hand(Hei thought that this criminal put his hand under the pillow to pick the gun up so Hei shot him but actually that man would pick drug) so he ask to transfer himself to the Custom Department.

- Jessica is the just graduated custom office who worked at airport. One day Liza who actually is her aunt in law pass that air port and cooperate to catch a criminal and see Jessica’s ability so transfer Jess to Liza’s division.

- Liza is Custom Police Inspector( the biggest in the station). She lives with her mother in law and she sometimes take care her parents. Her husband died by accident.

- Danny is the MD of a big magazine company who have a wife(Melissa) but she live abroad because he caused her to be unable-to-pregnant woman. He likes Liza’s mother’s novel and this lead him and Liza to be good friends.

PART 1 HAPPY PART
Liza has her own team which all of them rather close to each other. One day the new comers which are Wong Hei(Team Leader) and Jessica. Wong Hei can not get along with his colleague because he thought he just pay attention to work without need to create relationship. Wong Hei sometimes work with hot temper. Jessica come to work with full intention but without enough experience so she did something wrong and she was assigned only minor jobs. Jessica would like to help Wong Hei to cooperate better with the colleague and she try to open Hei’s private world without any special feeling at first. Hei gradually open his mind to his colleague and Jessica. When Jessica was injured by a criminal by injecting his AID disease, Hei support Jess and they start to have special feeling to each other. They implicitly and secretly are lovers because Jess’s mother did not like Hei and Hei’s father. After that It is about the problem of work and their love life.

PART 2 BAD SIGNAL IS COMING + Liza and Danny’s boring part to be fast forward
Suaw Yau who is the daughter of the criminal who Hei accidentally killed. She wanted to revenge Hei with every way but Hei can not fight back because he has to pay her life-debt. Hei try to change Yau’s mind and take care her until he started to have problem with Jess. Jess start see that this is unsolved problem and she asked to separate. Even Hei did not want to break but he respect Jess and accept to be good friends. Jes’s mother feel good for their break-up. They still love each other but this situation has no way out. After that Jess start to creat new relation with Hei’s brother with Hei’s support. Hei also start to be special with Yau.

For Liza, her parents died and she is alone and create teenage-like relationship with Danny. ( You can see Danny and lIza always hold hand even in front of Danny’s ex-wife and other young colleague who much younger but not show such romantic feeling as both old couple) Danny’s wife come back and still love him. Love triangle happen( Suck Scene ; for example, 1. all Liza, Melissa and Danny go to the restaurant and when Liza sit in a side and Mellissa sit in another side so Danny can not chose which side he should sit with so he ask the bellboy to pick another chair in order to let him sit between both of those women 2. Danny take Mellisa to the hill and she forgot her nech-cloth in his car and when he pick Liza for breakfast , Liza see and realise his hesitation between them) and finally Danny chose Liza.

PART 3 WONG HEI’S BAD LIFE
Another criminal come to revenge Hei which cause Yau’s mother died and Yau can not be with Hei anymore so she go away. Hei feel sad for guilty and has no chance to pay his another life-debt to Yau. Furthermore, he accidentally caused colleague death so he can not stand his fault and run to be a bad guy even Jess try to help him but he said that he need his private time. Jess finally found that Hei is a bad guy who addicted to drug and work for drug seller criminal. Danny also join drug seller criminal team. The team leader is a woman named Jacky who is a daughter of the super rich tycoon and is the drug seller agent for her father. Actually Wong Hei is an undercover cop who come to catch the drug-seller Tycoon while Jess and his family who do not know the fact of undercover try to bring Hei back to the good world. Hei was afraid that Jess and his family will be injured by that bad gang so he has to pretend to do many bad thing to push them away from that danger. Finally he can catch Jacky but he can not reach the Tycoon (like in our real life that the police can catch only small bad guy and let the big tycoons live with happy life around the society) and he is drowned in to the sea without explanation.

END

Jessica and Wong Hei
They are one of the best on-screen couple I have ever seen. I used to think that Jessica with Louis Koo are the best but Hei and Jess may be better. Even in this serie, there are not much live life scene between them because this serie concentrate more on old couple like Liza& Danny and Liza’s parent. Wong Hei and Jess are good at acting to make the audience believe that they love their couple very much no matter who are their couple.

In Burning Flame, Hei has to be in love with Esther who many people said that they are not compatible couple but Hei can act and make us believe that at that time Hei love Esther until Hei can betray his brother. Or in the scene when his mother was dying and he can act to show how much he love his mother which attack every audience’s heart. As you can see him like this in every series, his acting skill is brilliant.

In Detective Investigator File IV and Old Time Buddy, she make me believe that she love Louis and Au Jen Yui the most. She used to be said that she is not pretty when she first come to the entertainment business(like in the Recipe of the Heart) and she can prove now that she has both acting skill and charming look. She is better in long hair look like in AMOC.

Liza and Danny
This couple is boring until it is hard to explain about them. I’m like other audience who can not tolerate them by fast forwarding but I have to replay for this review. They are too old to be the main theme of any series. TVB try to push Liza to the heroin custom woman. At the first part (before she met Danny), she is like the super woman who is the idol for any custom woman. Liza dresses like a guy (in the black shirt) Jess saw Liza as her idol so Jess would like to be a custom officer. Liza’s team always praise her that she has a lot of experience and is valuable officer but actually she did not do any thing much. I always wonder what she do is valuable. After she met Danny, she change her dress to be like a pre-teenager who has small flower skirt and colorful and sweet suit. Furthermore, she will hold Danny’s hand in every place ( sweeter that any teenager couples) Danny has white hair in the front part of his head who has only two kind of face expression; 1- twist face( has many wrinkles in his face) to show his moody temper and serious feeling. 2- smile to show his happy emotion. Liza and Danny are too old to have such boring love triangle like in this serie as I have said before. Worse than that in the last part of the serie, Liza would like to have a baby and she talk to her ex-mother in law( Her ex-husband’s mother) who Liza and Danny respect like her own mother and finally Liza got pregnant at the age of 52++ years old. Oh No!

Favorite scenes
Every scene that has Jess and Hei or even has only one of them. It is good enough to see their acting. A very few love scenes in this serie are very very cute or even every scenes when they are still lovers.

Example: Hei and his father have some problems and Jess who at that time is Hei’s girlfriend is in her house which is close to Hei’s house would like to come to pamper Hei so Jess told her family that Jade Leang has love problem and she has to be her adviser. After that Jess come to Hei’s house and when she would go back to her house, her mother saw them together and ask why she is in Hei’s house so Jess said that Hei broke Jade’s heart and scold Hei that wish him had no girlfriend. This is cute message since she actually is his current girlfriend. You can see more cute scenes in AMOC.

I also like Jade Leang and Ma Jang Ching’s scene. They gradually develop their relationship from nothing to more and more deep feeling. They have bad moment of life so they take some alcohol, got drunk and slept together until Jade got pregnant so they have to marry without any feeling. After that they start to learn each other’ s life for the sake of their coming baby but they develop their relationship more and more. They are the only happy ending couple.
Favorite couple

Definitely, Wong Hei and Jess. They have chemistry and they have great acting skill to drive that chemistry more real and natural. They are always the couple even in the part that they are not the lovers anymore. They always care and understand each other. Actually it is hard to explain in a few words but you can realize by yourselves.

Best Actor/Actress
Wong Hei. Hei can use eye and face expression very well even Hei was blamed for his very small eyes. In AMOC, when hei has to do bad thing to his beloved persons like Jess or his parents, you can realize his deeply pain from his eyes and some nonverbal expression. I used to hear that Hei is an actor who ask the director to improvise some scripts to make better acting and act more naturally. I hate overact and underact which I will watch the right act with the great timing from Wong Hei and this will be much better if he has great actress like Jess. Somebody said that Hei got a little bit similar role but actually Hei has versatile roles in each series.

Jess can play very well as in other series. I like Jess’s natural acting. She can pair with any actor-Nick Cheang, Louise Koo, Booby Au Yung, Gallen Lo or Wong Hei.

Ma Jang Ching (He is the “Sua Jeng” in Journey to the west)is another one who play well. He can perform well both in humor and serious scenes. He should be in diet to have adroit body.
The scene that I used to think that I needn’t see but it is good to see

When I read some brief story from the forum, I would not like to see the scenes when Wong Hei break up with Jess and be with Sew Yau. When I really watch, I feel good to have a chance to watch and did not skip those parts.

When Sew Yau ‘s mother was killed because Hei used to be undercover and make the bad guy (who is the gay with Sew Yau’s father and jealeous Wong Hei and sew Yau’s mother )would like to kill Sew Yau’s mother finally. When her mother died, she feel that she can not be with Wong Hei who partially is the cause of her dad and mom, so she left Hei. Hei feel very sorry because Hei hurt Sew Yau many times and have no chance to take care her. As time passes, one day Hei went to catch the vender drug sellers and found one of that buyers is Sew Yau who faced a lot of bad situation and feel sorry for unable to be with Hei(the one she love very much). Hei hurt very much and want to help Sew Yau(He owed her a lot) He would like to protect Yau and more and more when he knew this is the last period of her life since she has AIDS. I would like to say that even Wong Hei is not with Jess actually, I love this part due to his brilliant acting. You should not skip this part, you may be sad and realize his pain.

Hate scenes, hate couple and hate actor/actress + Annoying Factor
Liza and Danny SURE. This serie will be memorable if there is no such couple. I used to like Lisa in At the theshold of an era because she play the role that suitable for her age and there is not much scenes for her. I would not like to see the old person to act like she is 25++ year old woman and not want to see old people life. They talk about the topics that I am not interested like tea preparation, very antique novel and old Chinese paintbrush. For their love life, I would like to die for their scene—holding hand, love triangle, jealeous

Example: Danny can not chose who he love the most. Melissa and Danny do to the hill and remind about their love. 8 years ago, Melissa got pregnant and Danny did not want to have a baby ask her to be aborted. Melissa made an argument for that issue and accidentally fall from hill until she can not have baby anymore. That the reason why she went abroad for 8 yrs. Back to the current period, Melissa’s neckcloth blown to the tree and Danny pick it for her, she hug him and ask for a chance to be together again. At the same time, Liza can not tolerate such love triangle(actually Liza should not tolerate such love triangle for a long time- too old to do like pre-teenager lovers) and she will leave. She is in the very big conference for her adopt child ‘s success ceremony which is full of the Press and people, Danny’s news reporter come to her and ask the question form internet whether she would like to have her own child (Oh my God, she is 52++ yrs old how can ask such question) and she answer that it depend on who is her husband. Danny come out with the computer among the exciting expression of the Press and people( What such old couple will do to show their romantic..Occh) and he straight to Liza and kiss her in front of a lot of people to show their love(they think this is very romantic but for me, it is distasteful. Even Liza was said to be the treasure of TVB but she has limitation for her role due to her old age(She is quite beautiful for 52++ yrs old woman but not look good enough to be like 30 year old woman.) TVB should keep some treasure in the casket/box, not always show out but should give the chance to younger such as Wong Hei, Jess, Louise, Bowie Lam, Gallen Lo, etc.

Worst Acting Award
Danny got my worst Acting award from me. For Danny, I know he used to be famous in action movie long long time ago but he can’t act at all. Furthermore, he don’t know that his acting is unnatural, in the news Danny blame Wong Hei that Hei do not follow script by improvising script. Danny said like bad rating is the result of Wong Hei’s performance and I hope you guy can realize who are the cause of bad rating. Hei always play with their colleague. I used to read Hei’s interview that Hei will study his script at home and come to work and join the cast to get along well when they are on screen. Sometimes he ask for adapt some part of script to make it more natural. Old style acting like Danny can not get it. I am glad to hear that Danny will not participate more in TVB deries. Good news right?

Unreasonable Factors
1. How can Liza be expected to be pregnant at the age of 52++?

2. Why Danny do not want to have a child but do not make birth control. When his wife got pregnant, he ask her to be aborted.

3. Why many women in AMOC must love Danny?(Just an old man who always make his face wrinkled and smile with reclined face(make 45 degree face like / ) Liza, Jade Leang and Melissa love him very much. I can’t believe this.

Unanswered Questions
1. Does Queenie(who is Wong Hei’s colleague who Hei accidentally cause her to death and she is the reason for Hei to be the undercover cop) die in the serie because at the last part a woman who has the same face as Queenie walk with a foreigner. Is she alive? I thought that Wong Hei ‘s inspector use Queenie’s issue to make Hei work as undercover for the police station.

2. Is Wong Hei died? Even he was drawned in the sea, I’m not sure. If this serie has high rating, I am so confident that there must be sequel but when it has not high, what happen next? I do not want to accept the sequel from Wong Hei’s MV(I have watched all of them) which also did not give the exact answer. Some said it is happy ending and some said it is sad ending, it depend on your own interpretation.

If I can change some part of AMOC
1. I will cut all
a. Liza and Danny’s part
b.Liza’s parent's part

2. I will find the way out for Wong Hei. Actually I accept that Wong Hei is hard to survive at the end when he did a lot of faults but every problems have solutions. For example, Hei should know that Queeny was not died yet. Give him the light life and happy love life. I believe human can have the happy life after bad life. In “nothing to declare”, Hei can have the happy life after bad life. If this serie can be changed as I want, I strongly believe that it must be one of the best series in the audience’s heart.
Worth Renting or not?

I would like to recommend that I watch this serie for Wong Hei and Jessica. Even there are a lot of Liza and Danny’s scenes, Wong Hei and Jess make this serie worth renting. You have right to fast forward undesirable part. For Wong Hei or Jess’s fan, you should not miss this. If you are not Wong Hei and Jes ‘s fan yet, let try to know why many people praise Wong Hei’s acting skill. Two Thumbs up for him!!

Rating
N/A

Interesting Facts
1. This serie did not get high rating. If you have watched it, you will find the true reason for such rating. ( Actually some series, which many people said that it has very bad script like Healing HandsII , got very high rating in Hongkong. It is hard to guess Hongkong people’s heart)

2. After that Danny come out to blame the AMOC production for bad script and preparation and also blame Wong Hei that Hei is not pay attention to the script. Danny said that he will not participate in TVB series anymore(good news), he can earn more money by producing low budget movies. If anyone did not watch this movie, they may blame Wong Hei for not high rating but actually not because of Hei but Danny himself. In acting world, pay attention is not enough but the actor have to find the way to act well and naturally. I hope others agree with me. I can’t accept Danny’s message to blame Wong Hei. Hei can not fight back because Danny come from old generation who is like more seniority.

3. All casts, except Danny, get along very well. They make very good team. Wong Hei write a letter in his forum that he like this cast team very much and he is afraid of the fact that they all will busy after AMOC until they can not contact each other. Hei is close to Jade Leang since they play in Burning FlameI together. Hei and Jess still contact each other. After AMOC, Jess have to go to work for “Back to the past” serie with Loius Koo in Paking, Hei has a work around China so he went to visit Jess and ask to play in that serie. Hei got a small role as an eunuch(King’s servant). I see Wong Hei with Jess in other events; for example, in Super Trio Game show- Hei, Jess, Jacky and Ma Jang Ching or in the preparation of TVB 33rd anniversary which Wong Hei did not participate in the actual ceremony because of his busy work.

4. There is a rumor that Wong Hei will pair up with Jess again in Burning FlameII. I hope this is true and Hei will not pair with Joey Yung.

5. Wong Hei is fluent in many languages such as Mandarin, Cantonese and English. For Jessica, she is fluent in English since she studied abroad for many years.

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Witness To A Prosecution II [TVB]

Written by Net42k

"Charmaine Sheh - I am surprised to find myself actually liking this character that she plays."

SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS!

Released in
2001

When?
During the Song Dynasty.

Who's in it?
Sung Chi - Bobby Au Yeung
Yun Yuk Zhu - Charmaine Sheh
Choong/Ng. Siu Loong - Stephen Au
Kit Siu - Ellesmere Choi
Yun Yuk Bo - Halina Tam
Sen Fung - Joyce Tang

What's it about?
WTTP 2 continues after Bobby Au married his 2 wives (Jessica and Marianne Chan.) It started with the two wives being pregnant. One day, their house was set on fire, and the wives were killed. Bobby turn out to indirectly caused the death of a man's wife, the man wanted Bobby to know what it feels like to lose a wife. Au blamed the death of his wives on the detective job, he got depressed and decided to go to another town.

Favorite Character
Must be Yun Yuk Zhu. She was misunderstood by everyone in her town because her fiancee died before they could get married. People thought she was a comet and was scared of being near her. Yuk Zhu's job is to dress up dead people (nicely) so they can be buried. I don't like Charmaine Sheh that much, but she is good in this role.

Most Disliked
Yun Yuk Bo, she is the half-sister of Yuk Zhu. Yuk Bo cares about money the most, and she agreed to marry this rich old man. She laters kill him to get his money, but unfortunately for her, she met Sung Chi and got her head chopped off.

Most Annoying
Choong, he is so stupid to believe in that hypocrite Yuk Bo. After he got a bit of talents, he started to think he's all that. If he didn't actually have a part in helping Sung Chi solved the crime, he would already be the most disliked character. Stephen Au is quite good in here, but he looks really weird in ancient costume.

Most Disappointing Character
Sen Fung, don't ask me, I just think the character is quite unreasonable at times.

Favorite Couple
Of course Yuk Zhu and Sung Chi. Very compatible, that doesn't mean that the actor and actress match though.

Least Favorite Couple
Ellesmere and Irene Wong. I just hated relationships like that. It is so cliché.

Casts
Bobby - I really hated the fact that he drinks himself after his wives died. Sure, he can be sad but do it to a certain length. Over-drinking yourself is not going to make your wives alive again. TVB always have these kind of scenes (drink after you get rejected) that it is getting overly annoying to see. Come on, at least think up of something else he could do rather than drinking himself to death. Bobby is the same in here, nothing spectacular.

Charmaine Sheh - I am surprised to find myself actually liking this character that she plays. I personally hated her role in Flying Fox, Crimson Sabre and HSDS. I liked to see her in evil characters so that she'll suffer in the end, but she plays this lovable Yun Yuk Zhu very nicely and I didn't wish for her to die.

Joyce Tang - I think she is the savior of the series. Despite the bad story, she somehow able to bring some warmth into the story. But why does she always get supporting roles?? She is as good as any other leading actresses, even better than most in TVB nowadays.

What about other actors?
I think they're all okay. I don't particular like any of them, but they are all very boring in their performances.

Is this worth renting?
This is truly disappointing to its prequel. Like many other sequels, this one lacks the charm and the good script of the first one. The cases were easy to solve, and they basically TELL you who did it before Sung Chi even figured out. I mean, what's the fun in that? The other bad thing was the final case, you KNOW that Jay Lau is the evil person in the early tapes. It's not fun for a series to be so predictable. Unlike the first one, where I absolutely do not have a clue that Frankie Lam was the bad guy all through the serial. But it is not too bad, despite the bad storyline, Bobby Au and Joyce Tang could keep you through the series.

Comparing
A Case of Misadventure - I say this is better than WTTP 2. It's similar, but I think ACoM have a more lighter mood than this.

Witness to the Prosecution 1 - This is definitely better, as I have said up there. I advise you to just leave it at the happy ending.


SPOILERS (for those who want it)
SPOILERS ALERT! SPOILERS ALERT!

1. Bobby ended up with Charmaine.
2. Stephen married Joyce.
3. Ellesmere (a guard) gets a happy ending with Irene Wong (a prostitute.)
4. Halina gets her head chopped off.
5. Jay Lau died (I think.)

Anything else to say?
No, I don't know what else to say. This is one of the bad sequels. It shows why TVB style has really gone down since the millennium. I only write a short review because this is not something I enjoy, and it also pains me to write something about it. Get this if you can't find any other series to watch, WTTP 2 at least has a happy ending, so you can look forward to that.

Rating
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Witness To A Prosecution II [TVB]

Written by Net42k

"Charmaine Sheh - I am surprised to find myself actually liking this character that she plays."

SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS!

Released in
2001

When?
During the Song Dynasty.

Who's in it?
Sung Chi - Bobby Au Yeung
Yun Yuk Zhu - Charmaine Sheh
Choong/Ng. Siu Loong - Stephen Au
Kit Siu - Ellesmere Choi
Yun Yuk Bo - Halina Tam
Sen Fung - Joyce Tang

What's it about?
WTTP 2 continues after Bobby Au married his 2 wives (Jessica and Marianne Chan.) It started with the two wives being pregnant. One day, their house was set on fire, and the wives were killed. Bobby turn out to indirectly caused the death of a man's wife, the man wanted Bobby to know what it feels like to lose a wife. Au blamed the death of his wives on the detective job, he got depressed and decided to go to another town.

Favorite Character
Must be Yun Yuk Zhu. She was misunderstood by everyone in her town because her fiancee died before they could get married. People thought she was a comet and was scared of being near her. Yuk Zhu's job is to dress up dead people (nicely) so they can be buried. I don't like Charmaine Sheh that much, but she is good in this role.

Most Disliked
Yun Yuk Bo, she is the half-sister of Yuk Zhu. Yuk Bo cares about money the most, and she agreed to marry this rich old man. She laters kill him to get his money, but unfortunately for her, she met Sung Chi and got her head chopped off.

Most Annoying
Choong, he is so stupid to believe in that hypocrite Yuk Bo. After he got a bit of talents, he started to think he's all that. If he didn't actually have a part in helping Sung Chi solved the crime, he would already be the most disliked character. Stephen Au is quite good in here, but he looks really weird in ancient costume.

Most Disappointing Character
Sen Fung, don't ask me, I just think the character is quite unreasonable at times.

Favorite Couple
Of course Yuk Zhu and Sung Chi. Very compatible, that doesn't mean that the actor and actress match though.

Least Favorite Couple
Ellesmere and Irene Wong. I just hated relationships like that. It is so cliché.

Casts
Bobby - I really hated the fact that he drinks himself after his wives died. Sure, he can be sad but do it to a certain length. Over-drinking yourself is not going to make your wives alive again. TVB always have these kind of scenes (drink after you get rejected) that it is getting overly annoying to see. Come on, at least think up of something else he could do rather than drinking himself to death. Bobby is the same in here, nothing spectacular.

Charmaine Sheh - I am surprised to find myself actually liking this character that she plays. I personally hated her role in Flying Fox, Crimson Sabre and HSDS. I liked to see her in evil characters so that she'll suffer in the end, but she plays this lovable Yun Yuk Zhu very nicely and I didn't wish for her to die.

Joyce Tang - I think she is the savior of the series. Despite the bad story, she somehow able to bring some warmth into the story. But why does she always get supporting roles?? She is as good as any other leading actresses, even better than most in TVB nowadays.

What about other actors?
I think they're all okay. I don't particular like any of them, but they are all very boring in their performances.

Is this worth renting?
This is truly disappointing to its prequel. Like many other sequels, this one lacks the charm and the good script of the first one. The cases were easy to solve, and they basically TELL you who did it before Sung Chi even figured out. I mean, what's the fun in that? The other bad thing was the final case, you KNOW that Jay Lau is the evil person in the early tapes. It's not fun for a series to be so predictable. Unlike the first one, where I absolutely do not have a clue that Frankie Lam was the bad guy all through the serial. But it is not too bad, despite the bad storyline, Bobby Au and Joyce Tang could keep you through the series.

Comparing
A Case of Misadventure - I say this is better than WTTP 2. It's similar, but I think ACoM have a more lighter mood than this.

Witness to the Prosecution 1 - This is definitely better, as I have said up there. I advise you to just leave it at the happy ending.


SPOILERS (for those who want it)
SPOILERS ALERT! SPOILERS ALERT!

1. Bobby ended up with Charmaine.
2. Stephen married Joyce.
3. Ellesmere (a guard) gets a happy ending with Irene Wong (a prostitute.)
4. Halina gets her head chopped off.
5. Jay Lau died (I think.)

Anything else to say?
No, I don't know what else to say. This is one of the bad sequels. It shows why TVB style has really gone down since the millennium. I only write a short review because this is not something I enjoy, and it also pains me to write something about it. Get this if you can't find any other series to watch, WTTP 2 at least has a happy ending, so you can look forward to that.

Rating
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Armed Reaction II [TVB]

Written by Funn Lim

"It has always been and always will be a love story wrapped in a package of so called policewomen with guns."

SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS!

Plot Summarized
Sam Yuen and Cheng Fong marries, but not our Siu Sang and Ah Ngor. Relationships made a bit more complicated when Sam Yuen was raped by a brother of a fellow trusted colleague, Ah Ngor realises that she could not bear anymore children and so left the children hungry Siu Sang, and he in turn marries a young art designer, Sum Kiew who in turns has an affair with her fellow colleague, James who in term beat up and she left him to return to Siu Sang who in turn is having a blast of a time with Ah Ngor who in turn is being pursed by a decent man named Yeung Kwong Chiu. In the end, it's one happy ending for one couple who is blessed with twins and not so happy ending for another couple who never seems to want to get married. Even if they wanted to, we all know Esther Kwan left TVB and we have Ada Choi in Armed Reaction 3 to replace her, a sequal to a sequal that Seagull declares to be the best of the best of the very bests. When will we be rid of Armed Reaction? Maybe number 3 will be the last since what more could they say? What more indeed?

My Comments
I decided against giving full plot sypnosis since I think we have quite a long winded one in E-Buzz. And so I have decided my who energy in writing about how I feel about this sequal to the smash hit, Armed Reaction.

I didn't like Armed Reaction because I thought it depended too much on the notion of women dependence on men. Even when they are policewomen, independent and with guns, they still needed to be rescued. And the title had no bearing whatsoever with the series' plot which were more concerned on the characters' love lives than real cases.

Armed Reaction 2 is slightly more intelligent in its presentation that part one, with interesting cases which were very brutal in nature, and some really real relationship problems. But it is still nevertheless melodramatic and overly contrived and the ending sucks.

One thing that I enjoyed watching AR2 is the rape of Sam Yuen. I am not wishing the worst for this woman but her attitude was overbearing and unreasonable. This event shut her up a bit and made her closer than ever with her loving and understanding manly husband, Ah Foong. The presentation of the rape was executed in the most brutal and honest way. No longer do we see rape scenes whereby women are slapped and then pushed to the floor and supposedly raped. In this series, we get to see the full effect of it. Many may ask;

Sam Yuen is a policewoman equipped with a gun. How can she be raped so easily?

Well known fact that men are many times stronger than women. Even if you know karate, you're still weaker physically. In that famous scene, Sam Yuen was brutally dragged from her car, handcuffed, and beaten half to death, her bra was stripped and she was rudely pushed to the floor and raped, I assume brutally. That scene was a powerful scene and very realistic. I applaud TVB for showing us the real side of rapes. The aftermath was just as powerfully shown. Sam Yuen became vulnerable, afraid,refused to have physical contact with her husband. These were all very real. Again, I would say these scenes were the best in this series.

But amongst such scenes, we have the usual drama. Ngor leaving Siu Sang, Siu Sang marrying another. Some time were given to some cases but somehow those investigations were too easily solved and their so called police investigations were shallow and nothing realistic.

One of the worst scene in this series which was also the most stupidest scene was the kidnapper who kidnapped a rich man together with Siu Sang's soon to be ex wife stayed in the house of the victim, the person kidnapped. I always assume that kidnappers would kill the victims if their faces were seen by victims. But this series went one step beyond blatant stupidity; our kidnapper openly stayed with the person kidnapped How moronic could such a kidnapper be?

I feel the only reason to watch this series is to watch Sam yuen and Ah Foong's relationship which is very volatile. And it doesn't help that he has a hot headed sife who has a brain the size of a peanut when she is unreasonable. So Ah Fong had a one night stand and so she went everywhere with a fellow colleague named Boy Genius, screming at the top of her voice to her husband; "if you can have an affair, why can't I?!" This eventually led to the rape by a man who hated adulteress. Sam Yuen is certainly one character I would like to slap. And I will never be able to trust her as a policewoman to protect my safety. She is irrational, irresponsible and too emotional. I would feel threaten by such a woman who can't even control herself, how then can she maintain law and order? And she has a gun as well, which is dangerous for someone who is emotionally like a little kid. Her husband, the one who is more thoughtful, mature and sensible had it up to his neck with his behaviour but he loved her, for reasons I am beginning to question. Perhaps I should rewatch AR I to see what is so wonderful about her.

We also could see plenty of other stories regarding Sam Yuen's sister who joined the TV entertainment business, almost raped and cheated. We get to see emotional problems with a certain cop we know very well, and we even get to see the point of view of An Ngor's son' Whether he likes Uncle Siu Sang more or Uncle Ah Chiu more.

However, too many moment of ridiculousness could never be explained. For example, a few below;

-Siu Sang sat for an exam and received a promotion. And thereafter he was transferred to CAIU (Child Abuse Investigation Unit), which is seen as a promotion. Correct me if I am wrong or applaud me if I am right. Isn't Siu Sang and weapon expert who is highly paid, highly decorated and highly respected for his knowledge in guns and bulletys? Isn't he an expert in the field of firearms? Why then is he transferred to CAIU, a department well known to be smaller, less famous and not very exposed to Siu Sang's expertise which is guns and bullets? Isn't that is a demotion rather than a promotion? I understand that in a police force people are always transferred from department to department. But transferring Siu Sang to CAIU is like asking a sniper to be an ordinary soldier! Siu Snag is an expert, and this aspect in the most stupidest aspect in this series.

-CAIU deals with child abuse cases, but it seems they deal with robbery, kidnaps and murders more than child abuse cases. And it is not like transferring one or two guys to Ching Foong's department, that is CID that deals with time cases to help a bit. The whole department is deployed. It just means that either HK has very little child abuse cases or TVB has got it all wrong in their attempt to try to introduce to us certain departments of a police force. I would say it is the latter, more so when they want to put Siu Sang and Ah Ngor in one department, to spice their complicated relationship, which made it all look too juvenile and unresearched.

-One story deals with a woman and child who are abused. That was quite a good story until they mixed it up into prostitution, gambling, and etc. Maybe some things are better left as they are. Why give us so much drama? I think I had enough of such drama with the woman and her child already. And talking about that woman who by the way is the Empress in Gods Of Honour (Lui San) I felt like kicking her when she was used again and again and again by her useless husband. The kid was beaten half to death and she still goes; "What can I do without my husband?". Well, maybe you will have more money since you work and he takes your money and your son will definitely have a longer life! And the policewomen and men were of no help either. They had reports of the abuse and yet they stood by when the woman went home to the husband again. Surely they can do something like practice police brutality, like kicking the man and warning him. And talking about warnings, we have two policewoman, one with long beautiful hair and another who looks like she needs food uttering "I WARN YOU!!" and as a man, let me ask you, are you afraid? I am not convinced of them as policewoman. The actresses should have watched NYPD Blue to watch how to really warn someone.

Overall, I find the performances very well done although the story has much to be desired.

Esther Kwan was simply amazing as Ah Ngor, a woman who has little ambition. She personifies that with the way she talks, the way she walks. She plays the simple minded AH Ngor to the hilt and a great pity she is no longer with TVB. She shares such amazing chemistry with Bobby Au Yeung.

Bobby Au Yeung was simply the best in here. He is cute, funny and witty as well. I like his Siu Sang. When he is at work, his Siu Sang is supposedly the number one sharp shooter in HK, he is not afraid of guns and robbers, he is very capable as a policeman. But when at home, he is often bullied by the 4 closest women in his family, and he is more afraid of Ah Ngor not marrying him than cashing after an armed robber. Excellent performance.

Yew Ying Ying who plays San Kiu gave her finest performance in her entire career in this series. She is pretty in here, although after this series she lost quite a substantial amount of weight making her look old and tired. In this series, her Sam Kiew has the same taste as Siu Sang and so they hit it off immediately. She is open minded and doesn't mind dressing as little as possible. And she became Mrs Chan Siu Sang. However, in an attempt to reunite Ah Ngor and Bobby, the writers made her character unbearable and unreasonable. I feel this is toow rong. I'd rather they kill off her character than to make her unreasonable. Nevertheless, a great performance and great chemistry with Bobby as well.

Joe Ma who plays Kuan Lo is cute in here. He always talks about his wife and is happily married. And his wife is a kindergarten teacher, always in pink or white, and very decently dressed. What a couple and very funny as well. His performance was ok in here which proves the versatality of this good looking former model who has a son by the way.

Michael Tong, Sherming Yew and even Chu Mi Mi was quite ok. Nothing much I could say.

Eddie Cheung was wonderful in here. It's true. His Yeong Kwong Chiu is a nice guy who falls for a woman who doesn't love him at all. His presence in this series is simply to provide for a barrier between Ah Ngor and Siu Sang though the barrier is a very thin one. However little he had o do, Eddie Cheung gave a fine performance.

The best, I feel amongst all would be Marco Ngai, an underrated actor in an overpopulated TV station. He once said, quite sadly that TVB did not fire him or anything because he is always on time for work, he remembers his script and he is always there. These are the words of a man who is a disappointed actor, not a happy actor. I feel more opportunity should be given to this remarkably versatile actor whom I still maintain can't be in a heroic role. I like his Cheng Foong even if he had an affair, I reasoned that his wife drove him to it. He shares great chemistry with Bobby and real life GF, Joyce Tang.

Joyce Tang is at best, hysterical in her performance as Sam Yuen. But she is also very good in her interpretation of Sam Yuen, the tomboy and the time bomb. I feel she did well, though I really do not like Sam Yuen at all.

Questions Asked And Answered
Some questions I believe you might be wondering.

Did Siu Sang and Ah Ngor marry at last?
Nope. She wanted career first and so Siu Sang still have to wait, after 2 and half years.

Whose children were the twins? That rapist or Ah Foong?
Obviously Ah Foong unless conception takes place months after the rape and you are not in your first trimester until months later. Impossible that they're the rapist's children.

What happened to Yeong Kwong Jiu?
Married to someone else.

What happened to Sum Kiew?
I assume she went far far away, never to be seen or mentioned again.

Verdict
If you liked AR I, you'll like this one. I find this sequal more entertaining than AR I though the story is not very well developed. Do not expect our lady cops to do anything great in here. It has always been and always will be a love story wrapped in a package of so called policewomen with guns.


Rating
N/A

Interesting Guest Stars
Look out for Benny Chan in the ending scene. It seems that there is a crossover from another series where Benny's character from an Anti Triad department (I assume a series on Anti-Triads) would bump into Esther's character in one of the funniest scene.

Interesting Sequel to a Sequel
Read Seagull's AR 3 review. I believe we will see more drama, more tragic drama, more melodrama, more expected love stories, like cop falling for a criminal though we will not know he is a criminal. The usual boring stuff except for some really tragic deaths I guess.

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