I've said many times that rom coms are not my favourite form of film.
So, a Hong Kong rom com, where the nuances of language are probably lost in the subtitling, was always up against it.
I'm afraid there was nothing about All's Well Ends Well that I found funny.
I don't know enough about Chinese culture to know whether jokes about men pretending to be gay or dressing up as women are de rigeur but all I can say is they don't usually float my boat.
Here, Louis Koo is the TV celebrity make-up artist who has made his name in the fashion world by pretending to be camp as Christmas.
He is hired by the girlfriend of a billionaire who has been given the cash to start her own fashion empire.
But he is the only man working there and little do the rest of the very pretty staff realise that he is not gay at all but is, in fact, staring at their boobs (that's the standard of the humour).
His secretary (Cecilia Cheung) is the cliched plain Jane who you just know, with a sweep of her hair and a flick of eyeliner, will not be as plain any more and will suddenly be the one all the blokes want.
In the meantime, the other fella on the block is a rival make-up artist, played by Donnie Yen (what is Ip Man doing in this?).
Hing-Ka Chan and Janet Chun's film is, in all honesty, a bit of a mess. The plot is disjointed and the characters not particularly engaging.
There are also some really bizarre tangents. At one point a lame excuse is found in the script for a dream sequence in which Yen is suddenly turned from a meek make-up artist into Ip Man.
On another occasion, Chapman To, who is playing another billionaire, is dressed up as a woman and sings karaoke - again for no obvious reason.
These are just two examples of where the movie literally loses the plot.
Laughs: none for me.
Jumps: none
Vomit: none
Nudity: a flash of a bum cheek in the closing outtakes.
Rating: 2.5/10
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