Chan brings Ching’s roommate Ying (the delectable
Grace Lam who has issues keeping her clothes on in most films) to the hospital
to look after her and in the best scene of the movie Ching starts having visions
of snakes and goes into a violent frenzy until all her blood arteries pop
and she dies. Ying says that her friend was a disciple of the Church of True
God headed by the charismatic Pope (Andrew Lin Hoi) and that she will pretend
to join them and spy on them. Sure – you are cute, you are hot – so why not,
says Chan in his usual clear-headed manner. He goes to another officer for
advice – of the supernatural kind. Every morning Officer Chiu (Anthony Wong)
has fellow officers lined up outside his office seeking his fortune telling
skills – such as one guy who shows Chiu a picture of the girl he wants to
marry and Chiu tells him that because “she has an ass like a duck, she will
kill him with constant sex” and by the way, what’s her telephone number.
An ass like a duck. I have to remember that one just in case.
The film swishes back and forth from present to
past as Chan wrestles with demons from his childhood, Chiu wrestles with
guilt for not having stopped another cult like madman (Mark Cheng) before
he killed years ago and Pope is predicting the end of the world on 01/01/99
and telling his followers that all will be forgiven so they may as well have
an orgy now. Cult leaders have all the fun. Emily Kwan also shows up at his
disciple who has to hook to make enough money to pay membership fees and
takes out her frustration on her husband and son when clients complain about
her proselytizing during intercourse.
Koo goes through much of the film with a blank stare but I expect this was intentional to show his character’s traumatized soul – or maybe he just wasn’t getting enough sleep. Kind of by the numbers but with just enough jolts of violence and nudity to keep you mildly interested; it was a film that came and went in the blink of an eye.
My rating for this film: 5.5