
In Hong Kong, Wu Zai-Jan is arrested for lingering in the hall of the Police Department with weird white make-up on his face and taken to Inspector Han and his team for interrogation. The suspect is mentally-disabled and says that he murdered a man named Cheng Fai; he also calls the detectives "wolves." The detectives go to Cheng Fai's apartment to investigate, and find that the supposed victim is alive. They return to the precinct and discharge Wu Zai-Jan since he is mentall... (Full plot summary below)
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In Hong Kong, Wu Zai-Jan is arrested for lingering in the hall of the Police Department with weird white make-up on his face and taken to Inspector Han and his team for interrogation. The suspect is mentally-disabled and says that he murdered a man named Cheng Fai; he also calls the detectives "wolves." The detectives go to Cheng Fai's apartment to investigate, and find that the supposed victim is alive. They return to the precinct and discharge Wu Zai-Jan since he is mentally-disabled, making them waste their time. Inspector Han expects to be promoted and has a troubled marriage; he doesn't love his autistic son, and his estranged wife doesn't accept his attitude toward their son. The next morning, Inspector Han and his team must investigate a murder case and they find that the victim is Cheng Fai, who was found dead in a park with seven stones in his stomach. Han and his team realize that releasing Wu Zai-Jan was a mistake, and they decide to cover their steps of the previous day solving the case. They discover that Wu Zai-Jan is a psychotic mental-hospital intern who has escaped from the the facility and is very connected to an intern who draws in her cell. When other victims are found dead in murders that recall fairy tales, Han and his team fight against time to prevent the fairy-tale serial-killer from committing other murders.
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| User ReviewNeil TRevenge.. with a slight twist at the end. |
| User ReviewMatt RA good steady serial killer movie... directed by Danny Pang (one half of the Pang brothers that brought us The Eye all those years ago). The story centers on two children abused in an orphanage and then taking out revenge years later on their 'Teachers'... Not bad. |
| User Reviewsherry cExtremely heavy and the story line is weak but can't deny that Elanne Kwong is good in this movie |
| User ReviewJesse OThis isn't a very good movie at all. First of all the subtitles for the movie are absolutely dreadful. Bad subtitles, much like a bad English dub, can very much affect your enjoyment of a film. The first time I saw Battle Royal, I didn't review it on here because the subtitles were awful and I didn't enjoy watching the movie. At least with this movie, the bad subtitles gave me a good chuckle. There's this scene at the beginning where the chief tells the main character to spend more time on his son. What a fucking pervert! There's also this hilarious moment, during the climax, where the main character's wife, name of both characters escape me, is fearing for her life as the villain has her standing near the edge of a building on the 7th floor. She's understandably scared as she does not know if this maniac is going to let her fall. What does she say when she sees her husband as he comes to save her? She screams out hubby twice. Think about how ridiculous that truly is. She screams out hubby. I realize the poor subtitles are to blame but it makes a "serious" moment into a complete joke. Those are the two worst examples but the entire movie is poorly subtitled. At the same time, I don't really think I'd have enjoyed this movie even if it had halfway decent subtitles. The story's just not that intriguing. They had an interesting angle with the fairy tale-inspired stuff but they don't make much use of it. It's not really that violent of a movie, so there's not much to keep you interested. The story, or the acting, certainly won't. It's just a tragic story about these orphans sticking together through thick and thin, using fairy tales to escape the harsh realities of their life isn't particularly effective or interesting. The film's climax also becomes a Saw ripoff. You have three minutes to choose between saving yourself by drinking the antidote to combat the poison in your body or save your family from a torturous death. Ripped straight from Saw. The orphans themselves have a pretty ridiculous death scene that defies the laws of physics. They're standing in the middle of a circle of fire, a circle of fire that materialized out of nowhere. As if on cue, but it gets worse, or better, depending how you look at it. After the main villain, who's dressed exactly like The Joker without the make-up, confesses the reasons for why he did what he did, the circle of fire, somehow, moves in on the orphans and consumes them in flames. Yes, the fire is a leaving, breathing entity, with the power to move in directions it shouldn't, unless there was a flammable element that would cause it to move in, but there wasn't. If there was, it'd have consumed them right from the start, they would've never been stuck in the middle with enough time to explain their reasoning. Ridiculous and stupid. I didn't like this film, at all. Poor subtitles are one thing, but when you have storytelling THIS bad, the subtitles are the last thing on your mind. Terrible movie, watch The Raid 2 instead. |
| User ReviewJuli NThis was an absolute waste of time. It was a waste of talents of Sean Lau and Elanne Kwong. I thought Danny Pang could've done a lot better than this from his success of "The Eye". However this film goes nowhere with some copy of other Hollywood blockbusters. This film isn't scary, there is no style (apart from the frequent use of editing and sound) and no story. I only saw this film because Elanne Kwong is in it. |