After a commercially successful foray into Hollywood with last year's Rush Hour, martial arts superstar Jackie Chan returns to the more familiar streets of Hong Kong for this action-comedy, in which he plays twin brothers separated at birth. One, a classical musician (the film seems confused as to whether he's a pianist or a conductor), returns to the city for the first time in years for a concert, while the other, a garage attendant, is getting into a scrape with local hoodlums. Predictable confusion and mayhem ensue as the two brothers suffer multiple cases of mistaken identity.

Aficionados will appreciate some of the action sequences, although others may be less impressed by the creaky plotting, wince-making humour and predictable set-pieces (particularly the ridiculously over-extended showdown in a car-testing plant). Chan's famously risky stunts seem a little less daring than usual, suggesting that the years are beginning to take their toll. Directed by two of Hong Kong's most successful film-makers, Tsui Hark and Ringo Lam, Twin Dragons was made as a fund-raiser for the Directors' Guild of Hong Kong, and apart from the two female leads (Maggie Cheung and Nini Li Chi), every character who appears is actually a director.