Reviewed by: Gaijin84 Date: 02/13/2007 Summary: Ultimately, you'll be disappointed... A truly low-budget movie, Unexpected Challenges is a category III bomb starring the ever-popular Shu Qi. Shu plays Zsa Zsa, an opportunistic reporter who uses the son of a former golf pro to get her scoop. Win Kao (O Chun-Hung) is running a failing golf course, and is forced to sell to an overbearing career woman, Jenny Wu (Lily Lee Lee-Lee). Eventually, being reminded of his past tragic love, he falls for Jenny and they seem happy for a time. Later, Zsa Zsa has gotten close to Win and reveals that she has admired him since childhood. Finding it nearly impossible to resist Zsa Zsa's charms (and who could blame him), Win leaves Jenny for her, throwing Jenny into a fit of jealousy that eventually hatches a deadly plot. Ok, let's face it. You're probably not watching this movie for the plot or the acting. You're watching it for the nubile Shu Qi and the couple of nude scenes she most likely appears in. With this expectation, you'll probably be disappointed. She appears in two scenes naked, one being an extended sex scene, but nothing more explicit than you'd see in any of the films being dumped out of Hollywood these days. Lily Lee Lee-Lee also appears in a nude scene, as does little known Tsui Bing-Ying. As for the 2000 release date, my best guess is this was shot long before Shu Qi was a big star, and was released in order to capitalize on her success in Portland Street Blues, Storm Riders and Gorgeous. It honestly appears to be a low budget Taiwanese production with little known actors other than the three top billed. Overall, not worth what you would most likely be watching for. 2/10 Reviewer Score: 2

Reviewed by: JohnR Date: 08/09/2006 Summary: It's a bust I had seen a copy of the cover of this DVD at my on-line retailor a few times, but passed it by thinking it was another pictorial; the kind with the soft music and the partially clad Hsu Chi posing here and there. But when I checked, I found it was a regular movie and that Hsu Chi gets nekkid in it. That's all the incentive I needed. The story is the romantic interactions between a failing, widower golf-pro turned business man, his hardball-playing female competitor, his son, and a reporter who has idolized him since she was a kid (Hsu Chi). It's basically a TV melodrama spiced up with a few modest sex scenes. The sex is done "artistically," meaning only front/top nudity and a lot of shadows obscuring the action. There's not much believeable here. I have no idea why Hsu Chi's character would have pursued the old duffer; there's really nothing there to recommend him. He's such a jerk his wife committed suicide, though that doesn't give Hsu Chi pause. I don't know why anyone is attracted to the ones they're attracted to in this movie; it doesn't make a lot of sense but offers the opportunity for some sex scenes. Hey, turn on the light! The DVD I bought (new and from a reputable dealer) has the quality of something dubbed off a third generation copy. It's like someone made the DVD from a rental version of a VHS tape. I can't recommend this. You can turn on any soap opera and get at least as good a story and the sex scenes aren't worth it. My guess is that everyone involved wishes they hadn't been. Don't get me wrong; it doesn't stink. It's just lame. If you're only looking for semi-nude Hsu Chi, get one of the pictorials. Reviewer Score: 4