Yeah, the comment above is very well worded and deep. This movie, while contains some fun dialogue, is certainly not deep. Perhaps in the English or Japanese version things come across differently but I watched it in Chinese, and Seoul Raiders is a run of the mill Hong Kong style action/comedy. That is not to say it was not enjoyable! Leung is superbly funny, and all of the gags that are pulled are hilarious. It definitely has a Stephen Chow feel. Also, i'm not sure if they translate well into English, but the jokes are nuanced and witty. I'd highly recommend this movie for a fun, up beat evening. But if you are looking for a dark character study, this is not the place to start.

8/10 because TLCW acts well when his characters are wisecracking and look cool. Honestly, I preferred his wisecracking character in Dr Mack.Shu Qi and the 3 Korean babes provide excellent eye candy. I actually like the 3 Korean babes because the way they spoke their Mandarin (I saw the dubbed version, which might have been quite inaccurate) sounded so cute beyond words.Ritchie Ren's portrayal of Owen was quite believable, complete with the rather American accented Mandarin (for those who saw it in Cantonese, the effect might have been different, I didn't catch it on DVD). I actually thought he was the evil character at first, and when the twist came that Lam was actually his partner, that came as a bit of a shock. The so-called victim, Lam, was playing a trick on Owen to lure out Polar Bear, and not the other way around. That bit was quite cool.To see 4 babes fight just screamed Charlie's Angels. In short, unbelievable. But hey, the film wasn't meant to be taken seriously, right? It's film! It's fantasy.The trick played on Owen, with the wasabi was fun, the effect believable (did Ritchie Ren actually eat the wasabi when acting out the scene? If he did, it was quite good!).Other than the eye candy and fight scenes without guns, which again screams Charlie's Angels, it isn't a totally bad film. I'd give the film 8/10 because I'm feeling generous, that's all.

I'd give this a lower rating if I could, and that's not because I don't "GET the Asian genre." I love Asian films (being Asian myself), even during times when the story lines become overbearingly sentimental, cute or cloying. But this one... I could barely get past the first 15 minutes. Each time I saw that smug face of Richie Renn's character I wanted to punch him in the nose. No offense to the actor himself (as I know there are many of his fans probably reading this), but I really hated the character. And his entourage of 3 Korean "babes" -- give me a break! All they did was follow him around and display the worst martial arts skills this side of Kung Pao. I like Tony Leung, and Qi Shu always makes nice eye candy, but c'mon -- couldn't they have come up with something better than this? It's like they're all sleepwalking through their roles. And the ridiculous subtitles? Who distributed this? I've seen more coherent sentences coming from a 3-year old preschooler. Movies like this make films like the incredibly bad "Dream of a Warrior" instant classics by comparison. What next? Calcutta Raiders? Mercy, please...

Any reviewer that takes "Seoul Raiders" seriously as a film is either on the take or mentally defective. This film is a ludicrous romp where Tony Leung CW and Shu Qi ham it up shamelessly as ultracool and irresistible superspies in a Korea where the bad guys have neither guns nor knives, and are constrained to fight only with fists and feet. Surprisingly enough, the film is pleasantly watchable, primarily because Tony Leung CW and Shu Qi really are ultracool and irresistible. They even tell us so in the movie. It's fun to watch them mug their way through this movie, although one hopes that this is the last "Raiders" picture (after the previous "Tokyo Raiders") that Jingle Ma will inflict. Richie Ren plays the straight man role to make Tony Leung look all the more wonderful by comparison. One only wishes that the three babes backing up Tony Leung had more screen time.