"Rob-B-Hood" tries to be too many things at once (caper movie, slapstick comedy, action flick, "message" melodrama), and ends up quite messy. I found the story needlessly hard to follow, and the tearjerking at some points (the "car battery" scene) shamelessly overdone. The baby-in-jeopardy incidents aren't particularly entertaining either, especially for young mothers! But there are some pretty good chase / fight scenes, a couple of amazing stunts (though you can see in the making-of that some of them were done with the help of wires, you still can't deny Jackie's precision), and it's a treat to see Yuen Biao in (brief) fighting action again. It's also nice to see the HK film industry continuing its long tradition of impossibly beautiful women - Yuanyuan Gao, Charlene Choi and Cherrie Ying have the kind of faces you can just look at for hours....neither of them are on the screen for very long though. For a better Benny Chan - Jackie Chan project, check out "Who Am I?" or "New Police Story". (**)
Review of Rob-B-Hood
