"Haven't you seen a man without an arm" Brother Bee (Chin Ka-Lok) yells at the taxi driver (Simon Lui) and then slaps him in the face. His woman slaps the taxi driver as well for good measure. Then slaps her husband and then they both slap the taxi driver. The reason he is missing an arm is because he just lost it in a brawl and he is bleeding all over the seat. One of his men rushes up to the cab and hands him an arm and says go to a hospital, they will reattach it like they did your leg. After a stop at 7-11 for a bag of ice, they arrive at the hospital only to realize they have the wrong arm. Shit it cost me a lot of money for those tattoos. Another taxi driver (Louis Koo) picks up an old lady (Helena Law Lan of course) out on a deserted road - she wants to go to a cemetery but gets out in the middle of nowhere telling him that his luck will be good.


It is the night shift when all your customers are gangsters, gamblers, drunks and as it turns out ghosts. This is a terrific comic start to the film and I envisioned something like the film Night on Earth with tales of taxi drivers and the supernatural. But unfortunately, the film soon jumps off the track and takes the road to dullsville. The rest of the film amounts to very little. It shifts to the house that Koo had just moved to with his wife (Amanda Lee) and his small son in order to escape debt collectors. His house's address is 888 - meaning good fortune in Chinese numerology - but not always. The house is haunted and the ghost starts giving Koo betting tips and Koo makes big money but the ghost says what about me. Koo promises him half of everything he has. Half of everything he has. Everything. Not so lucky after all. You have to be careful of your words when dealing with a ghost.


The final third of the film which takes place 20 years later in the same 888 which is now a huge office building is a real disappointment because there was an opportunity for some scares and a story of redemption but it just falls flat and you wonder what the point was. I expect better from director Herman Yau. There are plenty of jump scares to be had - such as the wife reaching under the bed for a bouncing ball - you know she will find more than a ball - but they are kind of predictable and often more silly than scary. Also appearing in the film are Frankie Ng, Wayne Lai and Ben Ng as the ghost. Ng was one of Hong Kong film's most psychotic killers in Red to Kill, but here he is just a grumpy horny ghost.