Devil Angel
Director:
Fu Li
Year: 1995
Rating: 4.5
The moral of this sleazy Cat III tale
is stay away from losers. They will always be losers. Definitely don't fall
in love with one. Especially obsessive love. Siu Suen is an innocent young
girl with a winsome smile living with her mother when she gets a call from
her boyfriend Chi Kit that he is on the wrong side of some stock trades and
hasn't enough money to cover them. When they find out, he sobs that he will
be arrested and go to jail. Right there is when any girl should cut him loose.
He screwed up, can't face the consequences and is now crying. But nope, no
one ever listens to me. She says let's run away together. I have enough money
to keep us going for a few months. So, they run off to an exotic location
and go to amusement parks, the beach, tell each other romantic things like
let's die together, point guns at their heads and have a lot of sex. I mean
a lot. Siu Suen is played by Vivian Hsu so you can understand that part.
Seeing Hsu getting topless often is not
a chore but it feels strange. She is this cute little imp who I know from
being in these Shaolin Popey films and a bunch of other conventional movies
like L O V E Love, Your Place or Mine, Accidental Spy and the very charming
Shoe Fairy. She looks like she is too young to drink. She first hit it big
as a singer from Taiwan and then became a rave in Japan before she turned
to film. And perhaps because she looked so young, she thought it was a wise
career choice to show her breasts. It worked for Shu Qi. I just wish she
had chosen a better film. This is like chewing on broken glass. It is all
unpleasant. Ok, not all but you know what I mean.
An elderly man approaches Chi Kit and offers
him a job. Service the woman I work for. She is lonely and needs a stud.
He of course turns him down. Till their money is stolen. And then, well I
will still love you. I will just have sex with her but be thinking of you.
Really? Of course, just in and out. You will barely know I have been gone.
The woman is enormously wealthy and quite attractive and enjoys having sex
in the swimming pool. And pretty much anywhere else. She is played by Yeung
Si-man or in English "I like a young man". Most of her film career consists
of appearing in six Jin Pin Mei films, softcore movies. So she is not shy.
Her breasts are like torpedoes ready to be launched. Once he gets a bit of
that he can't stay away. Experience counts. Siu Suen pretends to be his sister
and they move into her house. She sulks a lot. Pouts too. You should have
dumped him way back. I kept expecting it to take an interesting turn - they
conspire to kill the woman, Chi Kit and the woman conspire to kill Siu Suen,
Siu Suen joins them in the pool, the woman decides to dump Chi Kit for Siu
Suen. So many options. Unfulfilled.
