It is important to note that this film is done in the old Hong Kong, Shaw Brothers style, so the comedy and some of the drama is over the top and the plot skips around. It is just updated to 2014.
Ming and his friend con people out of money. Ming's expertise is using his good looks to scam women out of money.
A wealthy, dying man hires gangsters to capture a very rare butterfly which lives in a valley known only to a generational line of women in a remote tribal village in China. A-Long, the current keeper of the secret valley is working in Beijing as a waitress and Ming is forced to get the secret location from her when they put an explosive necklace on his girlfriend Mimi and a tracker bracelet on Ming.
Ming meets up with A-Long and they eventually travel to the remote tribal village and the valley of butterflies. Ming begins to realize that he has actually fallen in love for the first time and has to figure out how to save A-Long, Mimi and the butterflies, if possible.
I'm not a huge fan of this style of movies, if I were I would probably rate it higher. It does generally have higher production values than the old Shaw Bro movies of the 70's and 80's. And, some of the drama, plot and acting is NOT over-the-top, a good thing to me. However, my rating is based on comparing it with other 2014 Asian movies and, in that reference, it isn't that great. But, I did watch it to the end and some of the actors are good. If a show is awful, I won't even finish it.
Ming and his friend con people out of money. Ming's expertise is using his good looks to scam women out of money.
A wealthy, dying man hires gangsters to capture a very rare butterfly which lives in a valley known only to a generational line of women in a remote tribal village in China. A-Long, the current keeper of the secret valley is working in Beijing as a waitress and Ming is forced to get the secret location from her when they put an explosive necklace on his girlfriend Mimi and a tracker bracelet on Ming.
Ming meets up with A-Long and they eventually travel to the remote tribal village and the valley of butterflies. Ming begins to realize that he has actually fallen in love for the first time and has to figure out how to save A-Long, Mimi and the butterflies, if possible.
I'm not a huge fan of this style of movies, if I were I would probably rate it higher. It does generally have higher production values than the old Shaw Bro movies of the 70's and 80's. And, some of the drama, plot and acting is NOT over-the-top, a good thing to me. However, my rating is based on comparing it with other 2014 Asian movies and, in that reference, it isn't that great. But, I did watch it to the end and some of the actors are good. If a show is awful, I won't even finish it.