Director: Ho-Cheung Pang
Writers: Goo-Bi GC, Ho-Cheung Pang, Chi-Man Wan
Cast: Simon Yam, Annie Liu, Nick Cheung, Irene Wan, Maggie Siu
A cop discovers a worldwide women's secret society, which determines to kill all men on earth, and his wife might be one of them..
'Not a film I was in much of a rush to watch, partly due to not having seen anything by it's director before and the fact I've stacks of unwatched Asian films to catch up with by directors I had heard of. What a mistake on my part as it's a wonderfully unique story, got to be said it’s got a very pedestrian pace but one that rewards the patient with an original clever twist. The opening shot of a photograph of the queen in a narrow hallway slowly being panned away to reveal the slightly humorous sight of frogmen beating a man up. It's all done in slow motion while classical music plays reminded me so much of Lindsay Anderson's style of absurd film making. It's not until much later do we learn anything about this scene. The core plot starts when a police officer trying to pass the paper work to a routine peeping tom case on to a duty sergeant Tsim (Simon Yam). As he takes an interview from the pervert he gets told he’s not really a sex maniac but really filming evidence of a plot by women to slowly kill men. Only when the statement gets lost and needs to be done again this time the man says he was really a pervert after all. Not believing this Tsim starts to dig deeper and bodies start to pile up. I highly enjoyed this film was so stylishly filmed and story is peeled away nice and slowly, now I've got to hunt more Ho-Cheung Pang down.'
(8½ out of 10)
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