Wonderful character development!

Pretty Good

Dreadfully Boring

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

This should really be called Nana (instead of Ming Ming) because that's the name of the other of the two characters Zhou Xun plays; the one who has the orange hair, quite a bit more screen time, and a better story line if you could separate them. This is NOT a martial arts film unless you consider flinging marbles and flicking matches at people martial arts. I thought it was silly. Director Susie Au obviously comes from a music video background. I found the random quick and quirky edits tiring, although they did set up the actors with wonderfully posed portraits throughout. Daniel Wu has an awesome hairdo if you go for that kind of thing. Zhou Xun's Cantonese is quite fetching and ordinarily I could watch her all day long. She's one of the more engaging actresses from China. (See her in "The Equation of Love and Death" or "Painted Skin") It's too bad that the director's heavy-handed style gets in the way of enjoying this film where identity as an ambiguous thing is decently explored.

That the tag-line is deliberately misleading is not a good reason to dislike a film. Neither is the seeming lack of a plot/story throughout the beginning two thirds of the film. Likewise for the anticipated martial arts action. Just because you expected roast beef and got vegetable lasagna instead doesn't mean the lasagna is bad. Admittedly, it is bad form to promote a side dish as the main course, but the main course wasn't bad. Also, the beginning side dish was quite tasty.There were lots of slow parts to the film, but it isn't easy to link together all the parts of what is essentially a long music video minus the dancing. If you need a plot/story in a film to make sense, rest assured; it does in the end. However, that may not add to the enjoyment of the film. This is a film best enjoyed without a lot of expectation. There are special effects, attractive women, attractive men, nice music, even a plot/story - what more do you want?

When the movie's trailer released in TV,I thought it will be cool. After watching it,I felt huge disappointing. "Ming Ming is a 21st Century martial arts princess and lady Robin Hood who steals for love. Her Prince Charming is D, a maverick fighter and irresistible rogue who posted this challenge to his swarms of female admirers - give him 5 million dollars and he'll run away with his benefactress to Harbin. Ming Ming meets D's another girlfriend Nana, who is a virtual look-alike of Ming Ming. Meanwhile, disappears from Shanghai without a trace. The only clue he leaves behind is a cryptic phone message."The summary looks pretty,but the movie is horrible.Susie Au's debut copied her Music Video's cosmo & fashion,and this is the solo spot in the movie.If she wants to continue her career as a movie director.Au should go back to school to learn how to tell a story.Otherwise,the weaken and awful screenplay such as "Mingming" will destroy her future. Zhou looks cool when she as Mingming.But her acting is limited in this movie,which is awful & boring.From 2003,Zhou's acting is narrow and powerless,for example,Baby in Love,Beauty Remain & A West Lake Moment.

This is the sort of movie where style is king (or queen, if you like). While as a possible genre, "style" is a rather elusive concept, one can easily bring to mind movies that are, though not entirely comparable, similar in distinguishing themselves with style. Two examples that come immediately to mind are "Miranda" (2002) and "Pisutore opera" (2001).On this premise, Ming Ming is indeed nice to watch, so much so that you almost want to forgive its ridiculously far-fetched "plot twist". But isn't there even a plot to begin with? It's almost as if the director has watched so many movies recently that an urge becomes irresistible, an urge, that is, to throw everything she has seen from these movies into a mixer, and churn out a movie of her own.For melodramatic elements, you have identity confusion of look-alikes, cliché gangster routines, childhood secret, devoted-boy-helping-girl-to-chase-another-guy, girls head-over-heel with the crash for a sexy male, city hopping and many other plot elements you recognize. Unfortunately, they do not add up to an integrated plot in this movie.For more specific borrowed elements, you have a boxing sequence from "Ong-bak" (2003), a voyage from "Invisible waves" (2006), the "Matrix 2" (2003) fighting scene (slight variation in having all the Hugo Weavings as different persons here), just to give a few examples. The camera work is quite dazzling but there's nothing that you have not seen somewhere else. And, as mentioned, there must be suspense and a twist, which in this movie is a motif in the form of a mystifying box and its tantalizing content. This turns out to be so brainless that it's almost comical.On the plus side, style comes not only visually but also with music, from fabulous Anthony Wong Yiu-ming and his fabulous "People mountain people sea" gang. Zhou Xun gets a chance to look both super-cool and super-cute because she is playing two characters*. Daniel Wu is deliciously sexy. It's good to see Kristy Yang Kung-yu in a cameo role. Casting of top Taiwanese pop star Zhang Xin-zhe as the gangster boss is a little weird but there is reason in the madness.* During Q&A in the Hong Kong International Film Festive premier I attended, one individual who might have been sleeping through most of the movie, asked Zhou Xun how she felt about playing three characters. Her response brought about a round of applause from the rest of the audience, "May I suggest that you watch the movie one more time", she said. "I only played two," she added.