sarastro7 I loved the first Twins Effect movie. Great girls, fun action, great vampires. A totally feel-good romp with lots and lots of eye-candy. In my opinion, Twins Effect II is not much worse! It's not quite as good as the first, but there's plenty to look at. Beautiful girls, rich colors and costumes, beautiful scenery, a fantasy world of amazons and magic-wielders, and a vaguely Arthurian plot about a young man fated to find the sword Excalibur and liberate the people from the terrible tyranny of a man-hating matriarch! It's great!OK, they didn't do a lot with the story; it's really only there as a token plot device to build some cool action and an entertaining setting around. The story isn't king. But at least it's coherent and extant, which is more than one can say for a lot of other silly Asian action comedies! The two big scenes that make this a very cool movie is the long opening fight scene between the two twins (called 13th Young Master and Blue Bird), which is *exactly* the kind of thing I look for in martial arts movies, and then the great (but completely irrelevant to the story) fight scene between super-fighters Donnie Yen and Jackie Chan. I don't know why some people didn't like this fight; I thought it was very, very good. Even if it didn't need to be there at all, as far as the story was concerned. In fact, Donnie Yen's character, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (yes, that was his name!), didn't have any kind of necessary-to-the-plot role at all. But it was fun seeing him; he is always ice cool!The overall look of this movie reminded me of parts of The Legend of Zu, simply because of all the rich colors. That stuff looks great if you ask me.Gillian Chung is still the best-looking thing in the movie, in her gorgeous blue outfit! Where the hell can I buy the posters to go with this movie??My rating: 8 out of 10.

highflying_falcon Like in many of their previous movies twins again failed at their latest attempt to portray themselves as serious actors. Like many of their past movies only true twins fans can really enjoy this movie that lacks a decent plot line. Jaycee Chan (son of Jackie Chan) makes his first and only appearance to date in a film and after seeing his poor performance I recommend that he stick with music.The only bright part to this poorly made movie is the small appearance of Jackie Chan to add some flavour to this movie.To all the twins fans out their you would probably enjoy this but to all the other serious movie goers I would not really recommend it.

Simon Booth My understanding was that Twins Effect 2 was changed from a proper sequel to the Twins' vampire-busting film to a period film because the (mainland) Chinese authorities wouldn't allow a film to be released that featured "supernatural" elements, such as vampires. I am a bit puzzled now though, because Twins Effect 2 features plenty of supernatural things - no monsters, but lots of magic powers and what-not (and prophecies of destiny etc). It's slightly reminiscent of The Stormriders, but less epic and vastly more juvenile smile.gifGillian & Charlene play "Dumbbell Traders" - women who trade in male slaves, in a land ruled by an evil queen where all men are slaves and love is outlawed. Jackie Chan's son and some gawky teenager play two such dumbbells, who come across an artefact that implies one of them might be the true king of the land - thus begins a quest, of sorts, and a love story. Aw, how sweet?Charlene is in full on sassy mode again, whilst Gillian has the quieter, more serious role (again). The film makes it clear just how much Ah Gil has outgrown Ah Sa in every way - her acting and her appearance are much more mature, and I think the time for the Twins phenomenon must be running out. I think this is the debut film for Jackie Chan's son, and I'm sure nobody is at their best when they're thrust into a leading role for their first performance, but I have to say he comes off especially badly - he has zero acting ability or charisma, and he's sadly inherited his father's looks (but without the talent to compensate). Daniel Wu gives a fairly good performance, and Donnie Yen has presence as a character called "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon", but the only really great performance in the film is a hilarious cameo from Leung Ka Fai.The film does have high production values, with some great sets and costumes, but they're kind of wasted on the juvenile story and direction. There was potentially a great film in here, but not with this cast and crew.The film does have quite a few fight scenes, choreographed by Donnie Yen I would assume, since they rely heavily on over the top wirework and his personal favourite, digital stuntmen. There are some very innovative wire sequences, but the quality of the computer graphics is very poor, and the digital scenes are very unconvincing and unimpressive. The special effects in this film are actually worse than those in Stormriders. The action scenes also suffer from some major plagiarism - there are lots of moves and shots lifted from any number of Yuen Wo Ping films, which is to be expected from Donnie, but there are also a couple of shots ripped off blatantly from Ryuhei Kitamura's AZUMI. Does he really need to resort to that? Worse still, the highly anticipated Jackie vs Donnie fight is almost a remake of the Donnie vs Jet fight in HERO. How short does he think people's memories are?All in all, Twins Effect 2 is not a good film - but it has moments that are enjoyable, especially if you think of it as a kid's film, which I guess you have to expect with a vehicle for Twins. Given the time and budget they had for making the film, it's somewhat unforgivable that they didn't do a better job though.

jasonteh7 Last year's Twins Effect was surely one of the worst movies of the year, due to its corny dialouge, laughable action sequences and lack of plot. This year, it looks like Twins Effect 2 will have almost the same honour. Only the HK movie industry could manage to churn out nonsensical sequels one after another.On to the plot: The leads, Twins play citizens of a kingdom in which men are slaves and women are the rulers. They help a guy fight the female emperor. End of story.Nothing really makes any much sense in this movie, it suffers from the same faults as the first one. The saving grace is probably Jackie Chan's cameo, in which there is a brilliant fight sequence.My recommendation: Only hardcore fans of Jacky Chan/Twins will watch this crap. 1/10