Started watching it last night at a friends house. Horrible film, IMO, horribly dissapointing from Chow Yun Fat, but 'twas mindless enough. However, the coming of midnight (and thus, the excuse to go set off illegal fireworks on the street) distracted us, and we didn’t finish.
Anyone wanna give me a quick run-down of what happened from the point where Kar and the monk are sneaking around that girl’s mansion?
Sure!
Kar learns that the girl is really a poor little rich girl, and goes around town as a tramp to get away from her riches. At the same time, the mansion is attacked, and the three of them are captured and taken by the museum curator, who is actually the general’s grand daughter. while in captivity, it is discovered that the entire Buddhist underground clan has been captured and tortured.
General tries to extract the chant from the monk but fails. He rips his shirt to reveal the tatoo of the chant on te monk, whic hhe gets scanned. the girl and Kar manage to free themselves and fight enuses between the enemy and them. Later the general learns that only half of the chant has been tattooed, the other half being in his memory. The general promptly begins to scan the monk’s mind. (I hope you are following 
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Anyways, it all come ot end when the monk manages to free himself and fights the now youthful general (he read half of the chant), helped by Kar. In the mean time the girl frees the Buddhist monks that have been cpatured. The general nearly wins the match, but at the right moment, Kar gains strength, and kicks the general’s ass down the building on to the comming traffic.
Finally, the monk says that the new successor has been found, and it is Kar, who fulfilled the prophesy stated at the begining of the movie. But the general again rises and tries to kill the monk and Kar, but the girl comes in between. Kar finally kills the general and surprise, surprise, the girl is not dead. You see, there is not one, but two sucessors, each of whom fulfilled the prophecy. The chant can’t be tattooed across the girl’s chest (political correctness loses to gender equality), so the boy and the girl share the last part of the chant, which is whispered in their ears by hte monk, right before he leaves for a vacation.
Hope this helps/frustrates 