As Downtown Torpedoes was the superior version of Mission Impossible, this is the superior version of Mission Impossible 2. A team of professional high tech theives are after a stolen cancer cure. There's some kind of backstory dealing with Lai's former partner dying that's not adequately explained that gives us the villian near the end of the film. Even more clever set pieces during the heists, but some cheats with computers and absurd technology, like a surveillance ladybug and a mickey finn operated by remote control. An admirable, though failed, effort to recreate Matrix style camerawork, though the variable speeds are beginning to give me headaches.
Some hoods fund a midget scientist to develop of formula to give a man super strength.
They pick up a piss bum, Wildman Steve, to experiment on and trick him into stealing a safe. The production values would send Ed Wood back for more takes after seeing the dailies. There are jump cuts to the same camera angle in mid-sentence and the reaction insert shots don't synch up. Bad print transfer, bad editing, bad delivery. Not just bad, inexcusably bad.