Life is full of surprises; even two parallel lines may one day meet. This movie uses these words to describe the mystery destiny of our life, and tries to show us a romantic story which might be happening everyday around us. It is a story for the people who are destined to meet each other.

The illustrated storybook drawer Jimmy’s early thoughts were very simple. He showed us the relationship between the man and woman, how they passed each other, how they paced back and forth, how they tried to find the answer, and how they finally met. The book gives us a very deep lonely and heavy constrains feeling, and points us the weakness we get on our way to meet the only one in our whole life. But for making the movie more plentiful, the script writer added two other characters, so the movie becomes much funnier to watch. However, we are not sure if these changes are the good or not. For box office result, making something that fit everyone’s enjoy is necessary, and for sure this is a romantic comedy, not s serious drama. In my personal point of view, it has greatly damaged the significance of the story. The ending is another weak point, the event that would finally bring the two main characters together was really out of place, not suitable with the whole story before, and it really seems a bit hasty. Maybe the director wanted to show us what a miracle was.

"They're both convinced; that a sudden passion joined them. Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still. "-- This is a part from poem "Love at First Sight" which written by Wislawa Szymborska, a Poland female poet. It appears several times in the movie and in fact is the clue between the two main characters. They both like this poem and feel sympathetic chord. This movie was the second cooperation of Takeshi and Gigi in one movie, but they make us believe that their souls are half of each other and they fall in love at the first moment, just like in the poem.

The year 1999, five years ago, Takeshi and Gigi’s first cooperation was in the movie Tempting Heart. That time, they were both young and fresh; we can easily feel their immature act. Later, Takeshi went to Japan to develop his talent and Gigi continued her acting life in HK, they both grown up and came back for another reunion in this movie. It was not perfect but they became much more mature and believable than before. Also the two other actors Edmund Chen and Terri Kwan were very important green leaves. Their excellent act helped the success of the two flowers-- Takeshi and Gigi.

Johnny To and Wai Ka-Fai are good at shooting movie about fate of this kind. Comparing to their other recent movies such as PTU and Running on Karma, this movie has more relaxed and funny elements but less heavy feeling. The movie might be not completely satisfying for everyone, but in all, it’s a good story and is absolutely worth watch for fans of romantic comedy.