It's also incredibly uneven, visually overworked and frequently substitutes noisy kinetic action for actual narrative momentum.

It's overstuffed, disjointed and suffers from storytelling longueurs but there is so much filmmaking invention and spurts of nutty energy it adds up to a thoroughly enjoyable romp.

What he fails to explain is who director Han Yan and the producers think they were making this movie for, because it's extremely nerdy stuff, however many killer clown fantasy sequences are dropped in.

If there is one Chinese action film starring Michael Douglas and featuring a clown as a central character that you see, make it this one! "Animal World" is stylish, fast-paced, exciting and a hell of a lot of fun.