A family has been brutally slaughtered, leaving only one sister as the sole survivor. Police Constable Lui and his assistant Kin are put on the case. However, Lui seems more interested in groping the corpses and cracking bad jokes. But despite Lui’s incompetence, they manage to find someone with a confession on the way.
This film is from Hong Kong and should not be confused with Stuart Gordon’s film of the same name from 1990. This bizarre film features a strange mix of genres that should never have been crossed to this extent. Especially not when one of the genres is so incredibly poorly executed as it is here.
When you first look at the cover, you might think it’s some kind of sado/bondage film, but if you read the synopsis on the back, you realise it’s a rape/revenge film. However, when you start watching the movie, you spend the first half hour with a lame comedy filled with dull jokes and exaggerated slapstick acting. I seriously thought at one point that the wrong film was in the case. Eventually, the comedy is interrupted by some lengthy love/sex scenes straight out of Ghost, before everything takes a bold turn into rape/incest scenes. It gradually becomes quite brutal, and all traces of bad comedy vanish. You would have to search far and wide to find a film as disjointed as this one.
The film is actually quite good, at least parts of it. The bad comedy was just tragic and didn’t even make me crack a smile. But the second half works surprisingly well. There are many well-known names behind the film for those familiar with Hong Kong cinema, but best of all is Lily Chung. She occasionally acts quite well and is convincing. The film’s soundtrack, like the rest of the movie, is sometimes good and sometimes pure rubbish.
To summarise, this is perhaps the most uneven film ever made—not exactly something to cheer about, but the second half of the movie is good enough that I would recommend it to those who appreciate rape-revenge films. The first half, however, was a disaster of epic proportions. The film even got a sequel the following year for those who didn’t get enough the first time around.
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