This science fiction flick from Wong Jing and Andrew Lau uses a self-important script to hide the fact that it really makes no sense and is inane and boring, to boot. Stars like Andy Lau, Shu Qi and Rosamund Kwan can't save this movie. Neither can plentiful special effects, which are actually quite awful. Maybe nothing can save this movie.

After nearly two years in production, Andrew Lau and Wong Jing's Dr. Wesley movie finally hits the screens. For most Hollywood productions, two years of production time is normal, but for a Hong Kong flick it's rather unusual. Either it means they worked really hard on the post-production (i.e. The Storm Riders), or they simply were taking their time trying to find the film's voice (i.e. most Wong Kar-Wai movies).
     Well, I'm not sure exactly what took so long with The Wesley's Mysterious File, but it doesn't seem to be either of the above reasons. Perhaps they simply didn't know what they were doing, and the result is a mishmash of poor plotting, atrocious acting, and special effects that would look great on Sony Playstation, but are ill-fitting to the big screen. Yes, this movie is just not good.
     Andy Lau stars as pulp hero Dr. Wesley, who works for a United Nations extraterrestrial investigation unit located in San Francisco. His adventure begins when he runs into Fong (Rosamund Kwan), who's interested in purchasing a skeleton hand which supposedly belongs to an alien. Wesley doesn't have much time to dwell on that because he soon is embroiled in an alien sighting and runs afoul of Sue (Shu Qi) and Pak (Roy Cheung), agents for Double-X, the US extraterrestrial agency. Wesley ends up assisting Double-X in their search for the Blue Bloods, a race of aliens possessing nifty powers.
     Fong is actually a Blue Blood, too. Her race hails from the "Dark Blue," and are after the "Blue Blood Bible." She and her brother Tan (Samuel Pang) were separated when they arrived on Earth 600 years ago. She thinks he's dead, and wants to find the rest of his skeleton along with the hand she recently acquired. Upon learning this, Wesley vows to help her, but things aren't as easy as they seem. The government actually has shady plans for the Blue Bloods, and there are even alien baddies (played by Mark Cheng and Almen Wong) who show up to cause mayhem.
    It'd be great if all of this combined to make a nifty science fiction flick, but this movie hardly qualifies. It seems that producer-director Wong Jing thinks sci-fi consists only of aliens, unintelligible scientific concepts, and lots of people wearing black suits. This movie provides those things in spades, but it neglects to add everything else, like story, plot, direction, or acting.