Deadly Dream Woman
Director: Taylor Wong
Year: 1992
Rating: 6.5
The very stunning
Cheung Man has been brought up and trained to be a costumed super hero avenger
but in her attempt to destroy a triad member - Ken Lo - she receives a head
injury and loses her memory. Up to this point, the film has been an interesting
stylish action film - influenced by films like Saviour of the Soul - but
then as often happens in HK films it quickly turns the corner into a comedy
as Cheung Man is found and taken in by the ever lovely - but conniving Chingmy
Yau and her mother Deannie Yip.
Once Chingmy discovers that Cheung Man has great fighting abilities, she
of course uses her new found friend to her advantage in taking on all of
her enemies. The two of them begin working in a hostess bar where Cheung
Man comes into contact again with Ken Lo.
It isn't until she receives a bump on the head though that her memory comes
back and she realizes that she must still revenge herself on Lo. She teams
up with Chingmy and Jacky Cheung in exacting this. Needless to say both
ladies look ravishing in this well stylized if not entirely satisfying film.
It has some very enjoyable fast moving action bits, but bogs down from time
to time.
I must confess though to a weakness for super heroines in masks - especially
ones as breathtaking as Cheung Man is in this fun genre mutating film.
